page_title: Malcolm Laurie
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Malcolm Laurie / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Drepanopterus pentlandicus Laurie. Original figure. (From Laurie) The Eurypterida of New York. Volume 1. New York State Museum Memoir 14, figure 69
context_page_description: Prof Malcolm Laurie FRSE FLS was a Scottish zoologist and palaeontologist.
context_section_description: He was born in Brunstane House south of Portobello, Edinburgh on 27 February 1866, the son of Simon Somerville Laurie and his wife, Catherine Ann Hibburd. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy 1876 to 1880. He studied Science, first at Edinburgh University then at Cambridge University where he graduated BA in 1889. He returned to Edinburgh for postgraduate studies and gained his doctorate (DSc) in 1894.
  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.
  He became examiner in zoology at the University of Glasgow in 1899.
  In 1907 he was living at "The Bloom", a villa on Canaan Lane in south-west Edinburgh.
caption: A figure from The Eurypterida of New York,  drawn by Malcolm Laurie
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