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Brown, David Rainy, was educated at the Edinburgh Institution, 
under Dr Ferguson, and at Edinburgh University. He also studied in 
Germany. Entering the firm of J. F. Macfarlan & Co., Manufacturing 
Chemists, Edinburgh, as a young man, he later succeeded his father, 
Mr David Brown, the subject of the immediately preceding notice. Mr 
Brown accomplished a considerable amount of research work on Opium 
and Chloroform and published papers in the Pharmaceutical Journal. 
An old member of the Queen’s Edinburgh Volunteers, he served during the 
war in connection with Coast Defence Work. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1911, and died at Edinburgh 
on 9th January 1921, at the age of 50. 
Carter, William Allan, O.B.E., J.P., M.Inst.C.E., was a son of Mr 
Frederick Hayne Carter, C.A., and was born in Edinburgh in 1847. He 
received his early education at the Edinburgh Academy, and was after- 
wards trained as a Civil and Consulting Engineer. For a long period Mr 
Carter was a member of the Dean of Guild Court of Edinburgh, and from 
1909 to 1913 he served as Lord Dean of Guild — an office which gave him 
a seat as a Member of the Town Council of Edinburgh. He acted also for 
some time as Engineer to the Convention of Royal Burghs, was Secretary 
to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, and Hon. President of the East of 
Scotland Engineers’ Association. 
Mr Carter started his professional career in paper engineering, and 
specialised in the recovery of soda in that connection. He was engaged 
later in the construction of bridges, water supplies, and drainage schemes, 
etc., for County Councils and Burghs. Appearing often in the Court of 
Session as an expert witness, he was greatly respected for his broad and 
moderate views and courteous manner. Mr Carter frequently acted as 
Examiner for the degree of D.Sc. in the University of Edinburgh. He 
was known to a wide circle of acquaintances as a man of outstanding 
ability and high professional skill, a capable administrator, and also a 
gentleman of wide culture. 
Mr Carter was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1898, served 
on the Council from 1911-1914, and represented the Society on George 
Heriot’s Trust from 1911-1918. He died at his residence at Gullane on 
7th September 1921. 
Dundas, William John, W.S., LL.D., was the son of the late Lord 
Manor, and an elder brother of Lord Dundas. Born in 1849, he was 
educated at the Edinburgh Academy 'under Mr James Carmichael, and, on 
