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BY the death at Cambridge on January 15 of Sir Donald MaeAlister of Tarbert, in his seventy-ninth year, a great personality has passed out of the academic and medical life of Great Britain. He was a Scottish highlander descended from the MacAlisters of Tarbert in Argyllshire, a family which for about five centuries possessed considerable lands in Kintyre and the heads of which were hereditary keepers of Tarbert Castle. Although originally a branch of the great clan MacDonald, they held their Tarbert possessions in charter from the Campbells with whom they cast in their lot in politics and war.
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Sir Donald MacAlister, Bart., K.C.B. Nature 133, 202–203 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133202a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133202a0