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which, were conspicuous many in the poorest ranks who had 
derived advantage from his skill as a physician. It has also been 
exhibited in the successful realisation of a scheme to commemorate 
his life by a monument to be placed over his grave in the Dean 
Cemetery, and a bust to be preserved in the University, which have 
been executed by Mr. Hutchison, R.S.A. 
His friends and associates lament the death of a sincere, truthful, 
and warm friend. His colleagues recognise that the profession of 
medicine has lost one of its most eminent representatives, an earnest 
denouncer of abuses, and a powerful advocate for reforms ; a man 
of science, diffident in self-assertion, but- influential because of the 
merits which he himself was slow to assert. 
Dr. Andrew Wood. By Professor Maclagan. 
Dr. Andrew Wood was the representative, in the fourth 
generation, of a family which for considerably above a century and 
a half has been identified with the medical profession in Edinburgh, 
and especially with the Royal College of Surgeons. His great- 
grandfather, William Wood, entered the college in 1716 ; his grand- 
father, Andrew Wood, in 1769 ; his father, William Wood, in 1805 ; 
and he himself in 1831. It does not appear that the first William 
Wood ever was chosen President of the College, but all his three 
descendants obtained that honour, two of them being twice elected. 
The subject of the persent notice was born on 1st September 
1810. He was educated at the High School, being, according to 
the then existing system, four years under Mr. Lindsay, and then 
two years under the Rector Dr Carson, his place in his last year’s 
class being a high one, and showing that even as a boy he had a 
taste for the ancient classics which were to him a source of enjoy- 
ment to the end of his life. After having gone through the 
humanity classes he entered upon the study of medicine, and took 
his degree of M.D. in August 1831, when he was not quite 
twenty-one years of age, under a custom then in force, which per- 
mitted those to receive their degree whose twenty-first birthday 
occurred before the commencement of another academic session. 
Very soon after his twenty-first birthday he was admitted to the 
Royal College of Surgeons, his probationary essay being upon 
