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elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1864, 
became a Fellow in 1868, and, after filling many offices in the Royal 
Institute, he occupied the Presidential Chair from 1891 to 1894. As an 
architect he planned many buildings of banks and insurance offices in 
the City of London, and was Honorary Architect to the Royal Scottish 
Corporation and the Caledonian Asylum. He was deeply interested in 
religious and benevolent works. 
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1893, and 
died on June 9, 1915. 
William Anderson, F.G.S., born in Edinburgh on January 20, 1860, 
was the eldest son of Dr Joseph Anderson, the well-known Scottish 
antiquarian, and was educated at Newington School and at the Edinburgh 
University. Although he began the study of medicine, he subsequently 
relinquished it in favour of geology, and in 1886, on the recommendation 
of Sir Archibald Geikie, took up duties on the Geological Survey of New 
South Wales. For seven years he continued to work in that Colony, and 
wrote valuable reports on many points of geological and economic interest. 
In 1893 he was appointed to the Geological Survey of India as Mining 
Specialist, and in 1899 became Government Geologist of Natal. He re- 
signed this appointment in 1905, but continued for some years to contribute 
reports on the geology of South Africa. Failing health compelled him to 
give up active work, and in June 1913 he took up his residence in Sydney. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1905, 
and died in Sydney on May 30, 1915. 
J. B. Buist, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., B.Sc., P.H., graduated M.B. at the Edin- 
burgh University in 1867. He wrote a number of papers on Vaccination, 
which he taught under the Local Government Board. He was also 
Lecturer on General Pathology in the Edinburgh School of Medicine. He 
wrote various papers on Variola and Vaccinia, which were published in 
the Edinburgh Medical Journal, the Transactions of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh, the Lancet, and other medical journals. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1887, 
and died on January 29, 1915. 
Sir Thomas Smith Clouston, Kt., M.D., LL.D., was born in Orkney 
on April 22, 1840. He studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh, 
and devoted himself specially to the study of mental diseases. In 1863 
he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Cumberland and West- 
moreland Asylum, Carlisle, and ten years later succeeded his former chief, 
