Obituaries. 
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and in the affinities of various reagents for living cells. He devoted much 
attention to staining methods, and his hsematoxylin and triacid stains are 
widely used at the present day. He is perhaps best known for his discovery 
of salvarsan. 
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1905, and died on August 20, 1915. 
Sir James A. H. Murray was born at Denholm near Hawick in 1837, 
and began life as a schoolmaster. When at Mill Hill School from 1870 
to 1885, he conceived the idea of a new historical dictionary of the English 
language, and, backed by the efforts of the Philological Society, began to 
collect material, which rapidly outgrew ordinary accommodation. In 1879 
the Oxford University Press took up the publication of the Dictionary, and 
in 1885 Murray moved to Oxford, and there pursued his task to the end. 
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1908, and died on July 26, 1915, while engaged in editing the words 
with initial letter “ U.” 
Frederick Ward Putnam was born in 1839 at Salem, Mass., and 
studied at Harvard University. He was Emeritus Professor of American 
Ethnology and Archaeology in Harvard University, Honorary Curator of the 
Peabody Museum, permanent Secretary of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science from 1873 to 1898, and President of the Associa- 
tion in 1898, and was distinguished for his contributions to anthropology. 
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1910, and died at Cambridge, U.S.A., on August 14, 1915. 
August F. L. Weismann was born on January 17, 1834, at Frankfurt- 
am-Main, and was educated at Gottingen. In 1886 he was appointed 
Professor of Zoology in Freiburg University, and continued throughout his 
long tenure of this Chair to investigate embryonic and post-embryonic 
development and metamorphosis of insects, Crustacea, and Hydrozoa. This 
brilliant work was the foundation on which he afterwards worked out his 
famous theory of embryology, to which he applied with singular felicity 
the fundamental principle of Darwinism. With the exception of Darwin 
himself, no zoologist has had a greater influence than Weismann in mould- 
ing scientific opinion on present embryology. 
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1910, and died at Freiburg on November 5, 1914. 
John Mac vicar Anderson, Architect, born in 1834, was a native of 
Glasgow, but he spent the greater part of his life in London. He was 
