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the late Thomas Henderson, of Glasgow. Chatacteristically 



his eldest son was christened "John Challenger," and he called 



his house near Edinburgh, " Challenger Lodge." Here it was 



his delight to entertain his friends and scientific colleagues and 



to enjoy discussing not merely problems of oceanography, but 



practically all things "dreamt of in our philosophy," for he had 



read widely and thought much. Despite his three and seventy 



years he was full of energy and of schemes for future work when 



on the 1 6th March, 19 14, a motor accident ended in a moment 



his life of strenuous activity. 



The world has lost a great scientist and a sound, practical 



organiser, but the memory in the hearts of those who knew him 



and worked with him is that of a man endowed with a deei)- 



seated love of truth and of science for its own sake, of a loyai 



comrade who unflinchingly, not to say brutally, told his friends 



just what he thought of them to their faces, and never spoke ill 



of them behind their backs ; of a considerate chief and a loyal 



comrade, whose roughness of manner was only skin-deep, and 



who could always be depended on for sympathy and help in 



time of need. 



W. E. H. 



Professor J. T. Nicolson.* — The early death of Dr. J. T. 

 Nicolson, professor of mechanical engineering in the Manchester 

 School of Technology and in the University of Manchester, will 

 be much regretted by a wide circle of friends. His health during 

 the previous six months had given serious cause for anxiety, but 

 had improved sufficiently to allow him to return to his duties. 

 There followed a sudden rcla[)se, and he died at Macclesfield 

 on May 27th after a brief illness. 



Prof. Nicolson was born at Amble, in Northumberland, in 



i860, and received his early education at Watson's College, 



l^dinburgh. He was then apprenticed to Hawthorne Leslie 



and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne. From there he gained a Whit- 



* Reprinted in part front an arlicle in '•'■ A^a/ lire," June j;th, igrj. 



