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and there again his wise guidance was of great service to the community. 
In 1919 the University conferred on Mr Harrison the honorary degree 
of LL.D. 
Dr Harrison occupied some years ago the office of Master of the 
Edinburgh Merchant Company, and served as Chairman of the Chamber 
of Commerce and the Edinburgh Savings Bank. He took an important 
part in the reorganisation of the Training Colleges, and specially interested 
himself in the Merchant Company’s Schools. During the war he 
threw himself into emergency work with great zeal, and perhaps over- 
taxed his strength. His war services were recognised in 1918, when he 
was made a C.B.E. 
He was a writer of repute, and was the author of a spirited sketch 
of the founding and early struggles of Oure Tounis Colledge, and of The 
Scot in Ulster, which displayed an extensive knowledge of the subject. 
His last important work was The History of the Monastery of Holy rood, 
and of the Palace of Holyrood House. 
Dr Harrison was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1917, and 
died on 10th July 1922. 
Hill, Alfred, M.D., M.R.C.S., F.I.C., held the following positions: — 
Medical Officer of Health and Analyst of Birmingham ; Examiner in 
Public Health, Chemistry, and Medical Jurisprudence, University of 
Aberdeen ; and Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology, Queen’s College, 
Birmingham. He was the author of several works on Sanitation, and of 
papers in the Transactions of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, 
Transactions of the Congress of Sanitary Institutes, and Public Health. 
Dr Hill became a Fellow of this Society in 1894. 
Lippman, Gabriel C., past President of the Paris Academy of Sciences 
(1912), Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1908, Professor of Physics in the 
University of Paris, 1878, and Director of the Laboratory for Physical 
Research at the Sorbonne (1886), was born in 1845. He graduated 
Ph.D. (Heid.) and D.Sc. (Paris), was a Commander of the French Legion 
of Honour, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London. His 
published works include : — H Etude des jphenomenes electrocapillaires. 
La Photographic des couleurs, Cours de Thermodynamique, Unites 
electriques ahsolues, and many papers in various scientific journals. 
Professor Lippman was elected a Foreign Honorary Fellow of this 
Society in 1897, and died at sea on board the liner La France on 12th 
July 1921, while returning from Canada, where he had taken part in the 
mission of Marshal Foyolle. 
