JAMES CLARKE WHITE. 873 



Professor Watson held many offices in connection with various 

 engineering Congresses, among which were the Vienna Exposition 

 of 1873, and the Paris Exposition of 1878. He was Honorary Presi- 

 dent of the Paris Congress of Architects and Vice President of the 

 International Congress of Hygiene in 1878 and Honorary President 

 of the Engineering Section of the French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science for several terms. He was a member of the French 

 Society of Civil Engineers, the French National Academy of Cher- 

 bourg, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers and various other scientific and engineering 

 organizations. 



He was the author of several works on engineering subjects and of 

 many technical papers. 



Charles R. Cross. 



JAMES CLARKE WHITE (1833-1916) 



Fellow in Class II, Section 3, ISOO. 



Dr. \Yhite was of Scotch-Irish stock, founders of Londonderry, 

 New Hampshire, some of whom, moving to the Maine coast and 

 mindful of their origin, called their place of settlement Belfast, another 

 important Ulster town. Here, in 1833, our friend was born. One 

 would not suspect that one of his great grandmothers was a Viennese, 

 so characteristically Scotch-Irish were his qualities. It is perhaps 

 well that he was one of a family of seven children, an education in 

 itself. His father was shipbuilder, ship owner, manufacturer, bank 

 president, a leader in all the activities of the town and the country 

 round about. 



James, fifth child and eldest son, took his A. B. at Harvard in 1853, 

 member of a class prolific in professors, Charles W. Eliot, Justin 

 Winsor, James Mills Pierce, Elbridge G. Cutler, Adams S. Hill, all of 

 Harvard, John Quincy Adams, Fellow of the University. It is note- 

 worthy that unconsciously he fitted himself during his boyhood and 

 college years for the study of medicine. Without having decided 

 as to his profession, he devoted himself to those preparatory studies 

 now required of students entering that of medicine. In his under- 

 graduate diary he wrote at the end of his junior year, — " I have done 



