Malcolm Laurie

File:The Eurypterida of New York figure 69.jpg of New York, drawn by Malcolm Laurie]]

He was born in Brunstane HouseEdinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1866-67 south of Portobello, Edinburgh on 27 February 1866, the son of Catherine Ann Hibburd and her husband Simon Somerville Laurie. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy 1876 to 1880. He studied science, first at the University of Edinburgh then at the University of Cambridge where he graduated with a BA in 1889. He returned to Edinburgh for postgraduate studies and gained his doctorate (DSc) in 1894.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=17 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}{{Cite thesis |last=Laurie |first=Malcolm |date=1894 |title=Studies in arachnid morphology|language=en |publisher=University of Edinburgh|hdl=1842/24058 }}

On gaining his doctorate he received an immediate post as Professor of Zoology at St Mungo's College, Glasgow. In 1918 he returned to Edinburgh to lecture in Zoology at both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

In 1894 he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Cossar Ewart, James Geikie, Sir William Turner and Ramsay Heatley Traquair. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society.{{cite journal | title=Further Notes on the Anatomy and Development of Scorpions, and their bearing on the Classification of the Order | author=Laurie, Malcolm | journal=Journal of Natural History |date=August 1896 | volume=18 | issue=104 | pages=121–133 | doi=10.1080/00222939608680422| url=https://zenodo.org/record/1430333 }}

He became examiner in zoology at the University of Glasgow in 1899.{{cite journal | title=News | journal=The American Naturalist |date=October 1889 | volume=33 | issue=394 | pages=839–842 | doi = 10.1086/277459 | jstor=2454292| doi-access=free }}

In 1907 he was living at "The Bloom", a villa on Canaan Lane in south-west Edinburgh.Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, 1907

His father was the educator Simon Somerville Laurie. He was the younger brother of chemist Arthur Pillans Laurie (1861-1949), both of whom were also Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In a letter to Nature, three scientists wrote "The systematic position of Limulus has long been a vexed question, which no one can attempt to solve without consulting the work of Malcolm Laurie on the fossil Eurypterids."{{cite journal | title="The Zoological Record" (Letters to Editor) | author=POCOCK R. I., F. A. BATHER & B. B. WOODWARD | journal=Nature |date=16 November 1893 | volume=49 | issue=1255 | pages=53 | doi=10.1038/049053a0| s2cid=4002476 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/1429353 | doi-access=free }}

Laurie published numerous papers on the arachnids, especially the scorpions. For instance:

• {{cite journal | last = Laurie | first = Malcolm | author-link = Malcolm Laurie

| date = 1891

| journal = Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science

| title = Some points in the development of Scorpio fulvipes

| volume = 1891

| issue = October

| oclc = 903913103 }} ([https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100445727 reprint])

He also published:

• {{cite book | editor-last1 = Scott Elliot | editor-first1 = George Francis | editor1-link = George Francis Scott Elliot

| editor-last2 = Laurie | editor-first2 = Malcolm | editor2-link = Malcolm Laurie

| editor-last3 = Murdoch | editor-first3 = James Barclay

| date = 1901

| title = Fauna, Flora and Geology of the Clyde Area

| location = Glasgow

| publisher = Published by the Local Committee for the Meeting of the British Association

| id = {{OCLC|8832984|show=all}}

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1392

}}

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• [http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-laurie29+2-2-0-1-0 Prof. Malcolm Laurie] (summary of sources)

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