Obituaries. 
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1919-20.] 
of his death in the direction of the affairs of the extensive drug business 
with which he was latterly identified. Mr Howie was endowed with a 
charming personality, and was endeared to a large circle of friends. He 
was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1876, and of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh in 1899. Mr Howie suddenly died of heart 
failure on the morning of December 17, 1918, in the seventy-third year 
of his age. 
George William Jones, M.A., B.Sc., LL.B., was born in Dundee on 
November 17, 1878, and was educated in Morgan Academy. In 1897 
he was appointed to a University bursary at Edinburgh, and in that year 
he began a most distinguished career as student of mathematics and 
natural philosophy. In due course he graduated with first-class honours 
in these subjects, and also as B.Sc. in mathematics, natural philosophy, and 
chemistry. He also gained the Baxter Scholarship in the University and 
the first MacLaren Scholarship in the Normal Training College. He 
organised, along with Mr Laing, the Scottish Tutorial and Educational 
Institute, with headquarters in Edinburgh and an important branch in 
Glasgow. In May 1917 he was appointed sub-lieutenant in the R.N.Y.R., 
and in August 1918 entered the meteorological staff of the R.A.F. with 
the rank of captain. He was carrying on important investigations in this 
capacity when he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1905, 
and died on November 4, 1918. 
Andrew King, M.A., F.I.C., who died on February 19, 1919, at the 
age of 56, was well known in scientific circles in Edinburgh as an able 
analytical chemist. He was on the staff of the Heriot-Watt College, and 
was for many years in charge of J. Y. Buchanan’s private laboratory in 
Edinburgh. He was co-author of an important paper on “ The Tem- 
peratures, Specific Gravities, and Salinities of the Weddell Sea and of 
the North and South Atlantic Ocean.” 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1917. 
The Right Hon. Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald, P.C., K.C., G.C.B., 
LL.D., was born in 1836, and received his education at the Edinburgh 
Academy and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Basle. In 1859 he 
was enrolled as an advocate, and during his early years of practice at 
the bar published a useful work on Criminal Law and Procedure. Always 
strongly Conservative in politics, his opportunity came with Disraeli’s 
return to power in 1874, subsequently filling the important offices of 
