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from a severe illness, which led, after years of pain and discomfort, to a 
major operation in 1913, these being almost the busiest years of his whole 
career. From 1913 on he never knew what freedom from suffering was, 
and gradually failed until his release came, November 23, 1919. 
As host, friend, companion, and physician, few men could compare with 
him, and his loss has been deeply felt by those who knew him in Great 
Britain and America. For thirty years Dr Hamilton had been a member 
of the Beefsteak Club in London, and one of his greatest griefs in the 
last year was that he might never again see his old friends there. 
Alexander Macalister, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., was born in Dublin in 
1844. He became a Demonstrator in Anatomy at the Royal College of 
Surgeons in Dublin before he was seventeen years of age. At the age of 
twenty-five he became Professor of Zoology at Trinity College, Dublin, 
and eight years later succeeded to the Chair of Anatomy and Chirurgery. 
In 1883 he succeeded Sir George Humphrey as Professor of Anatomy at 
the University of Cambridge ; the great anthropological collection which 
he made there will always remain as a memorial of his zeal and energy- 
Professor Macalister spent his life in amassing facts, and avoided generalisa- 
tions and the formulation of explanations or theories. His publications are 
as follows: — Introduction to Animal Morphology , 1876; Morphology of 
Vertebrate Animals, 1878 ; Text-Book of Human Anatomy, 1889 ; Evolution 
in Church History , 1879; Memoir of James Macartney, 1900; besides 
numerous papers and smaller text-books for students in Zoology and 
Physiology. 
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1916, and died in September 1919. 
Edward Pierson Ramsay, LL.D., was born in Australia on December 3, 
1842. He was educated in Australia, and was appointed Curator of the 
Australian Museum, Sydney, in 1874, which post he held with distinction 
until 1894, when he retired owing to ill health. Dr Ramsay was the 
author of over one hundred and twenty papers in periodicals, including the 
Journal of the Linnean Society of N.S. W., Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London, and the Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1884, 
and died in Australia in 1917. 
Reginald L. A. E. Westergaard, Ph.D., was a native of Denmark, and 
a student of the University of Copenhagen. He came to Scotland as 
