Mr A. was a patient of Dr William Peddie, or perhaps more accurately a subject of Dr William Peddie. Dr Peddie was not a medical doctor as you might expect but rather a physicist. He was born on Papa Westray in 1861 going on to study science at Edinburgh University. After graduation he eventually rose to the position of Harris Chair of Physics at University College, Dundee, a post held by him for 35 years. He died only comparatively recently in 1946. One of his particular interests and fields of expertise was colour vision which explains his link to the case. As it happens he was also a Fellow of the RSE and consequently an unsurprising contributor to their

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