Education
Studied at High School and University of Glasgow. Master of Arts with honours.
Studied at High School and University of Glasgow. Master of Arts with honours.
Assistant to Professor of Chemistry, 1868. Honourable Doctor of Laws Saint Andrews. Honourable Member of Imperial Military Academy of Medicine, Saint St. Petersburg.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Fellow of the Chemical Society. Fellow of Institute of Chemistry.
Member of Society of Chemical Industry. Of Faraday Society.
Of Germau Chemical Society.
Of German Society for History of Medicine and Natural Sciences.
Of Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (Past President). Foreign Memorandum Societe Frangaise d’Archeologie. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Fellow Archaeological Society, Glasgow (Past President), and Archaeological Association. Member of Bibliographical Society of Edinburgh (Past President), and of London.
Member of Royal Company of Archers (King’s Bodyguard for Scotland). Appointed by University as its representative at Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 1887.
Octocentenary of University of Bologna, 1888.
Tercentenary of Trinity College, Dublin, 1891. Inauguration of University of Lille, 1898. Centenary of Imperial Military Academy of Medicine, and Jubilee of Wylie Hospital, Saint St. Petersburg, 1898.
Quincentenary of University of Krakau, 1900.
Jubilee of Owens College, Manchester, 1903. Quatercentenary of University of Aberdeen, 1906.
Tercentenary of Bodley’s Library, Oxford, 1902. Quatercentenary of George Buchanan at Saint Andrews, 1905.
Tercentenary of Ulysses Aldrovandus at Bologna, 1907.
Quincentenary of the University of Leipzig, 1909. And on other occasions. Represented also University of Edinburgh at Saint St. Petersburg in 1898.
Clubs: Savile, Caledonian, Royal Societies.