Andrew Fyfe the Elder

In 1777 he was appointed 'dissector' to Monro secundus, professor of anatomy in Edinburgh University, in 1777: the post was joint with John Innes, but he died that year.

;" whilst the tallow from a naked candle he held in his hand ran over the back of it and over his clothes: but his drawings and depictions were well made and very useful.

"[1] It is not clear when his assistancy ceased, but it is pretty certain that he lectured and taught anatomy somewhere in the Horse Wynd.

He was entered as fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons, 23 October 1818, a few weeks before the entry of his son Andrew.

It appears that his lectures at last failed to be remunerative, and that in his latter years he devoted himself to his anatomical text-books and engravings.

Fyfe was a writer of text-books, which were as dry as his lectures, but, being associated with and adapted to the university plan of teaching, they had a large sale.