192 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
of which he assumed the management was, by his ability and enterprise, 
steadily extended and developed until it became a great law publishing 
house. His encyclopaedias of law and medicine are familiar to all prac- 
tising lawyers and physicians. His valuable collection of law reports 
has a place in every legal library, and many standard works written 
in recent years on law, medicine, accounting, and agriculture were 
published by him. He was the founder and proprietor of the Scots 
Law Times, the Juridical Review (which journal he also edited), and 
the Veterinary Review. 
A survival of his early training was shown in his researches into 
the origin of cancer. He devoted many years to this inquiry, the results 
of which are embodied in a monograph, The Cancer Problem, which 
aroused great interest among the Faculty and passed through several 
editions. His contributions to lighter literature are entitled : Lives in a 
Lowland Parish and a County History of Hast Lothian. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1910, 
and died at Liberton on 6th January 1920. 
[' Contributed by his Widow.'] 
Allan M‘Lane Hamilton, M.D., was born in Brooklyn, New York, 
October 6, 1848, the son of Philip Hamilton, the youngest son of 
Alexander Hamilton the great Federalist, and Rebecca, eldest daughter 
of Louis M‘Lane of Delaware, who was Secretary of the Treasury and 
of State, and Minister to England, in the cabinets of Andrew Jackson 
and Martin van Buren. 
Dr Hamilton’s choice of medicine as a profession dated from a trip 
to South America made in company with Louis Agassiz in 1865. In 
1870 he graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
New York, taking the First Faculty and Harsen prizes. His master 
was the late Henry B. Sands. From the first Dr Hamilton was interested 
in the study of nervous diseases and insanity. He was made Physieian- 
in-Charge of the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, and later occupied such 
posts as Attending Physician to the Hospital for Paralysed and Epileptics 
on Blackwell’s Island, New York, his colleagues being the late Dr E. C. 
Seguin and E. G. Janeway. For the first twelve years of practice he 
was on the Board of Health, and gained a large and varied experience 
in smallpox and cholera epidemics. In 1899 he took the first prize given 
by the American Medical Association for an essay upon “ Diseases of 
the Lateral Column of the Spinal Cord.” 
He founded the New York Psychiatrical Society a few years ago; 
