OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY

SIR DONALD MAGALISTER • ' 'v , • Prc« Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 15. The death is announced of Sir Don* aid Macalister. \ ■ [Sir Donald Macalister, who was born: in Perth, Scotland, in 1854, has been ■Chancellor of Glasgow University, since \ 1929. : He acted as chairman of dele-! gates at the Congresses of the Universities of, the Empire in 1912, 1921, and 1926. Among his publications were the j British Pharmacopoeia, (1898, 1914,'1 1932), and the ‘ English Authors of the: Shorter Catechism ’ (1917, 1925); Sir { Donald Macalister had... a very "distinguished career. He was an M.D/ and M.A., of Cambridge, B.Sc. of London, P.R.S.Ed., F.R.C.P., F.R.G.5.,! etc He held numerous honorary de-j frees and decorations, British and! 'oreign. He was a fellow of St. John’s! College, Cambridge, and was .at one time manager of the Royal _ Infirmary;| and Royal Maternity Hospital, 61as«| gbw. He held numerous other important offices in _ ponnection _ with medical and other scientific bodies. He was* knighted in 1908 and created a baronet in 1924.]