William Mackie, M.A., M.D., LL.D., physician and geologist. [Obituary.

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William Mackie was born on 28th April 1856 at Loanends of Durno in the parish of Chapel of Gariock, Aberdeenshire. He received his early education first at the Parish School and afterwards at the Old Aberdeen Grammar School. After undergoing a period of training as a pupil teacher at Daviot under the late Dr Brebner, he proceeded to Aberdeen University where he graduated in Arts with honours in Natural Science. For some years afterwards he held posts as a teacher of science in schools in Ayr and Perth. While teaching in Perth he found time to attend classes in chemistry in the University College, Dundee, and also to carry out research work there in collaboration with Professor Thomas Carnelley. Having decided to enter the medical profession Mackie returned to Aberdeen University and graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1888. Following a period of postgraduate study in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, during which he made a special study of diseases of the eye, Dr Mackie settled in Elgin. There he carried on a general medical practice for over thirty-five years, and for eighteen years he held also the posts of Medical Officer of Health for Elgin and Rothes. In 1924 Dr Mackie retired from active practice and thereafter resided in Glasgow where he died on 15th July 1932. Endowed with intellectual ability of no ordinary character, and possessing marked versatility, Mackie was withal an indefatigable worker, and he found time, despite the ties of a successful medical practice, to carry out an extraordinarily large