Obituaries. 
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Walker, Robert, M.A. (Aberd. et Cantab.), LL.D., was born in Aber- 
deen in 1842. He was well known to several generations of students in 
connection with the part he took in arranging and supervising a number 
of the more noteworthy functions of the University of Aberdeen, and his 
services were especially outstanding in connection with the quatercentenary 
celebrations and the visit of King Edward VII. to open the extension of 
Marischal College in 1906. The following is a brief resume of his career : — 
B.A. (fifteenth Wrangler) at Cambridge in 1865, and in 1868 M.A. Fellow 
of Clare College, Cambridge, from 1866-1878. He taught mathematics for 
some time in the Edinburgh Academy, and was examiner in that subject 
in the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In 1877 he was appointed 
University Librarian at Aberdeen, and in 1893 Secretary to the Aberdeen 
University Court, Registrar of the University and Clerk of the General 
Council, which position he resigned in 1906. The following year he 
received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Aberdeen University in 
recognition of his valuable services. 
Dr Walker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1873, and died at Aberdeen on 26th October 1920. 
Woods, Geo. Arthur, L.R.C.P. Edin., and L.M. 1868, M.R.C.S. Eng. 
1868, L.S.A. 1868 (St Bart.), Hunterian Gold Medal, was the author of the 
following work : — Anat. Physiol, and Pathol, of the Third, Fourth, and 
Sixth Nerves, as illustrated by Observation and Experiments in Health and 
by References to Effects of Injury and Disease (Coll. Trien. Prize, R.C.S. 
Eng.), and published papers in the Liverpool Medical Surgical Reports, 
Lancet, International Medical Congress , and the Liverpool M.-C. 
Journal. 
He was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1884, and died, 
after an illness of many years, on 30th June 1921. 
