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scientific expert to the firm of Messrs M‘Ewan & Co., Ltd., brewers, and in 
1905 was appointed Lecturer in, and later Professor of, Technical Mycology 
in the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh. He held this appointment until 
1918, when he retired with the intention of again taking up the commercial 
side of his subject. 
Dr Westergaard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
in 1909, and published a short paper in the Proceedings, vol. xxix, p. 748, 
“ On the Development of Mixed Cultures of Bacteria and Lower F ungi in 
Liquid and Solid Media.” He died at Lundin Links, Fife, on June 19, 1920. 
John Hardie Wilson, D.Sc., Lecturer in Agriculture and Rural 
Economy, St Andrews University, was a native of St Andrews, and from 
boyhood was an enthusiastic botanist. Several years ago he published a 
volume entitled Rambles round St Andrews, which is a valuable guide to 
the flora of the district. He laid out the first botanic garden at St 
Andrews, and was the first Lecturer in Botany at the University. After an 
interval spent as Botanic Lecturer in Leeds, he returned to his Alma Mater. 
For the past six years he had been engaged in research work for the Board 
of Agriculture in Scotland for the improvement of potatoes, turnips, and 
grain. He was a member of a Scottish Commission which investigated the 
conditions of agriculture in Australia a number of years ago. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1891, 
and died at St Andrews on January 13, 1920. 
