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Faculties became component parts of the University, and in the 

 development of the University after federation it was largely through 

 his efforts that the various Departments of Modern Languages 

 gained a proper and adequate recognition of their claims for support. 



Dr. Loudon took a keen interest in the activities of The Royal 

 Society of Canada from the date of its organization. He was 

 elected President of the Society for the year 1900-190L At the Annual 

 Meeting held in his honour in Toronto in the spring of 1901 he gave, 

 in a remarkably able address, a most interesting account of the pro- 

 gress made in Acoustics in the nineteenth century. 



After retiring from the University in 1906 he was compelled by 

 ill-health to confine his activities within very narrow limits. He was 

 able however to act as Chairman of the Council of the College of Art, 

 and it gave him great pleasure to assist in the development of the work 

 of this institution. 



Dr. Loudon was a strong Canadian, and he was an able advocate 

 of all that was great and good in British institutions. The friendly 

 relations which have been established between the Departments of 

 Physics in Toronto and Cambridge, arose in great measure from his 

 directing students looking for facilities for post-graduate work to 

 England at a time when it was rather popular in America to turn 

 to Germany for advanced work. 



Dr. Loudon was fine and discriminating in his mode of thought 

 and singularly clear in his judgments. He was quick to grasp the 

 vital factors in problems which came before him for solution. His 

 methods were always quietly constructive and free from cant and self 

 deception. In working out his policies he had frequently to act with 

 limited support, but whatever his conscience and intellect dictated 

 that he followed up with patience and courage. 



Thomas Gregor Brodie. 



In these days, when Canada and the Empire need as never before 

 the zealous services of their sons in whatever field of endeavour they 

 may excel, we feel a keener sense of loss when death removes from 

 among us such an one as Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie. A skillful 

 investigator in his chosen field, his past achievements had given prom- 

 ise of even more important contributions to the progress of physi- 

 ology and medical science, but on August 20th, 1916, he died at his 

 residence in London from an attack of angina pectoris, having been 

 called with tragic suddenness in the very prime of life. 



Professor Brodie was the second son of the Rev. Alexander 

 Brodie, Vicar of Grandborough, and at the time of his death had 



