lii Proceedings of Boyal Society of Edinburgh. 
Besides being M.D. of Glasgow, F.R.C.S. Ed., F.F.P.S. Glas., 
be had a long list of honorary distinctions. He was a Fellow of this 
Society, and had conferred upon him the honorary Fellowship of the 
Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and as late as last spring the 
LL.D. of the University of St Andrews. He was also a correspond- 
ing member of the Societe de Chirurgie de Paris and of the 
Academie de Medecine de Paris, Member of the Deutsche Gesell- 
schaft fiir Chirurgie, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Phila- 
delphia, and member of several other learned societies. He was 
Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen for Scotland, which appointment 
he received on the removal of Sir Joseph Lister to London. In the 
year of Her Majesty’s jubilee he received the honour of knighthood. 
He was, moreover, one of the Crown representatives in the General 
Council of Medical Education and Registration, and a D.L. and 
J.P. for Dumbartonshire. 
So far we have spoken of him with special reference to his pro- 
fession as a surgeon, yet one final word must be added. At heart a 
surgeon, he was by no means one-sided, as those with whom he 
came in contact soon discovered, for with his love of travel was 
combined a love for the history with which the places he visited 
was insej3arably connected. When able to snatch a few minutes 
from the busy day, he took up and read and re-read some branch 
of historical study. After his profession, perhaps history had for 
him the greatest fascination, and never was he tired studying the 
checkered fortunes of a nation’s life. Nothing he disliked more 
than to be considered a mere specialist, to whom the world and all 
things therein were of no interest, save as they served to provide 
subjects for the morning’s lecture. In the many addresses which 
from time to time he delivered, subjects of historical interest were 
almost always his choice. His profession, instead of narrowing him, 
seemed to help to widen his sympathies and his tastes, and incline 
him to take a special interest in general literature. 
Filled with that spirit of romance and warm-heartedness v/hich 
his Highland upbringing did so much to sustain, he delighted to 
welcome to his house of Fiunary, on the Gareloch — called after that 
other Fiunary, on the Sound of Mull, so long the family’s home — old 
fellow-students and old companions, and continue there the traditions 
for which that other home was ever so lovingly remembered. The 
