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Morrison Watson, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.SS. Edin. and Lond. 
By Professor Alfred H. Young. 
Among the Josses sustained by the Royal Society during the past 
year, that occasioned by the sudden death of Dr Morrison Watson 
was perhaps the saddest. 
In the prime of life, and apparently in good health. Dr Watson, 
when seized with the illness which soon afterwards proved fatal, 
was engaged in the active duties of the chair of Anatomy in the 
Owens College at Manchester, to which he had been elected — as 
the first occupant — eleven years previously. Prior to this, Dr 
Watson resided in Edinburgh, where he received— at the Queen 
Street Institution — his early education, and where later he studied 
medicine in the University, and in course of time took the degree 
of Doctor of Medicine. For some years he worked in the anato- 
mical rooms of the University as demonstrator with Professor 
Goodsir, and thereafter with Professor Turner, by the latter of 
whom he was appointed to the office of principal demonstrator of 
anatomy. It was during this period that Dr Watson became a 
Fellow of the Royal Society, whilst more recently he was also 
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. 
By his friends, and he had many, he was regarded with feelings 
of the highest respect and esteem, and the news of his sudden and 
early death gave rise to widespread expressions of deep and sympa- 
thetic regret. To those who knew him best he was a genial and 
affectionate friend, and it was only those perhaps who could fully 
realise his sturdy independence of character, his straightforward 
nature, and the strength and depth of his friendship. 
The loss which the Medical School of Manchester and the Owens 
College sustains by Professor Watson’s death is great. He was 
appointed to the newly instituted chair of Anatomy, at the period 
when the amalgamation of the previously separate institutions, the 
Medical School and the Owens College, was effected, and he at 
once devoted himself with energy and vigour to the work of 
creating a School of Anatomy in Manchester. Under his direction 
the resources for teaching were greatly developed and materially 
augmented, and the now fairly complete collection in the Anato- 
