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Dr Thomas Williamson. 
Dr Williamson was born at Greenock in 1815, and claimed to 
be the last surviving representative of tbe ancient family of the 
Napiers of Kilmahew. When quite young, he was sent to study 
medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he took his degree 
of M.D. at the age of twenty, in the same year becoming a licentiate 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, an institution of which he was 
elected a Eellow in 1857. He was one of the oldest members of 
the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh. In early life he held several public offices. He was 
for fully thirty years surgeon in Leith Hospital, and during the 
whole of his long residence in Leith took a warm interest in the 
welfare of that institution. At the time of his death he held the 
appointments of parochial medical officer and public vaccinator for 
the parish of South Leith, and medical officer of health for the 
entire burgh. The latter office obliged him to board vessels com- 
ing from ports where any epidemic was prevalent, and to his 
foresight is due the readiness in which Leith has been held, during 
the late visitations of cholera on the Continent, to deal with any 
emergency which might arise. His various public duties were 
performed with untiring vigilance and care, and he enjoyed the un- 
qualified respect of his fellow citizens, among whom his long resi- 
dence rendered his figure one of the most familiar in the community. 
Dr Williamson was an occasional contributor to medical journals 
on topics chiefly relating to sanitation. He published various 
pamphlets, and delivered several popular lectures on subjects relat- 
ing to public health, and read a paper on the subject at one of the 
meetings of the Social Science Congress at Edinburgh, which 
was printed in their reports. On returning from Colinton, he was 
seized with an attack of apoplexy which terminated fatally on the 
30th of December 1885. He was elected a Fellow of this Society on 
7th December 1857. 
John Mileoy, Assoc. Inst. C.E. 
The death has just been announced of Mr John Milroy, Assoc. 
Inst. C.E., one of the remaining links between the present and the 
great days of railway construction in which the late Mr Thomas 
