4 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
Mr Fairley had been in failing health for some time before his death, 
which took place at his residence, Newton Grove, Chapeltown, Leeds, on 
February 21, 1919. 
W. S. Greenfield, M.E., F.R.C.P.E., LL.D., was born at Salisbury in 
1846, and graduated M.B. and B.S. of London University in 1872. In 1874 
he became Demonstrator in Morbid Anatomy and Pathology at St 
Thomas’s Hospital, and in 1878 succeeded Dr Burdon Sanderson in the 
Chair of Pathology at the Brown Institution, University of London. 
His investigations in human and comparative pathology had already 
established his reputation as an original investigator when he was 
appointed Professor of Pathology in the University of Edinburgh in 
1881. Here he greatly raised the standard of pathological teaching, 
both in systematic lectures and in his clinical work. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1886, 
and served on its Council from 1887-90. He retired from his active work 
in 1912, and after a well-earned rest at his house at Elie, died on August 
12, 1919. 
[ Contributed by Mr D. B. Dott.] 
After the usual course of education Mr William Lamond Howie served 
an apprenticeship in pharmacy, and subsequently acted as assistant to a 
medical practitioner in Glasgow. He studied chemistry under Dr Penny 
in the old Andersonian College, and passed the major examination of the 
Pharmaceutical Society in 1870. He contributed several papers on pharma- 
ceutical subjects at the evening meetings of the Pharmaceutical Society 
in Edinburgh, and also at the annual meetings of the British Pharmaceutical 
Conference. Although originally devoted to laboratory work, his business 
ability was soon discovered, so that he became more and more absorbed in 
the commercial side of affairs, finding little time for experimental work. 
Yet, in the midst of business preoccupation, he found time to invent and 
patent a system of railway fencing which was the subject of a paper 
contributed to the Society of Arts. Mr Howie became an expert photo- 
grapher. Many of his pictures have been reproduced in standard works 
on geology and geography, and he was a contributor in this department to 
the Proceedings of the British Association. In recreation his favourite 
pastime was mountaineering, so that it naturally evolved, by a com- 
bination of artistic photography and experience in wandering among 
beautiful scenery, that his lectures on “Our Scottish Alps” and “The 
Swiss Alps” were in great request. In 1899 Mr Howie removed per- 
manently to London, where he was actively engaged down to the day 
