1899-1900.] 
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hospitals both of Edinburgh and Leith. His contributions to 
Anatomy are numerous. In 1885 Glasgow University conferred 
on him the degree of LL.D., and in 1898 the Queen conferred on 
him a knighthood. He died on 24th February 1899. He was 
elected a Fellow of this Society in 1894. 
George Williamson, who was elected a Fellow of this Society 
in 1888, was a member of the Greenock Faculty of Procurators. 
For over fifty years he performed gratuitously the duties of secre- 
tary to the Greenock Infirmary. He was the author of several 
books dealing with local history, his works entitled Old 
Greenock and Memorials of James Watt being his principal pro- 
ductions. He died in his eighty-sixth year. 
