394 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
In University circles Dr Walker was a prominent figure for many 
years, serving on numerous committees. He was a member of the University 
Court and of the Faculty of Music. His services to the latter, especially 
in connection with the Reid Concerts, and to the Students’ Union, were as 
unstinted as they were unobtrusive, and will long be remembered. In 
1919, in virtue of his great services to the University, the degree of LL.D. 
was conferred on him. 
Dr Walker was elected a Fellow of the Society in March 1922, and 
died at his residence in Edinburgh on 27th July 1922. 
WooDHEAD, Sir German Sims, K.B.E., was born in 1855 at Huddersfield. 
He was educated at Huddersfield Colleo^e, from which he entered the Medical 
Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1878. He also 
studied in Berlin and Vienna. For three years (J887-90) Professor 
Woodhead was superintendent of the Laboratory of the Royal College of 
Physicians, Edinburgh, resigning this post in 1890 on his appointment as 
director of the Conjoint Laboratories of the Royal Colleges of Physicians 
and Surgeons in London. This appointment he held until 1899, when he 
was elected to the Chair of Pathology in the University of Cambridge, 
where it was largely due to his initiative and energy that the New Medical 
School buildings were erected, including the Memorial Museum to Sir 
George Humphry. 
Professor Woodhead was an Hon. LL.D. of Birmingham and Toronto 
Universities, a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Hon. Fellow of the 
Henry Phipps Institute, Philadelphia, a member of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and a member of the 
Scottish Universities Committee. He was President of the Royal Medical 
Society (1878), President of the Royal Microscopical Society (1913-16), and 
founder and conductor for many years of the Journal of Pathology and 
Bacteriology. In 1895 he drew up a report to the Royal Commission on 
Tuberculosis, and was a member of that commission of 1902. 
During the war Professor Woodhead was appointed Inspector of 
Government Laboratories in the Military Hospitals in the United Kingdom, 
a post which invoUed much travelling and discomfort. Within this period 
he devised a method for the chlorination of drinking water for the troops. 
In 1919, in recognition of much valuable work, he was created K.B.E. 
He contributed papers to several medical journals, and was the author 
of the following works ; — 
1883. Practical Pathology , which reached its fourth edition in 1910. 
1885. Pathological Mycology (with A. W. Hare). 
