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in.— En JHemortam: Andrew moffat. 



By Mr JOHN LINDSAY. 

 (Read Nov. 35, 1896.) 



The announcement made by the President at the meeting of 

 the Society on October 28, 1896, that our late Secretary, Mr 

 Moffat, had died on the previous evening, came with the shock 

 of a sad surprise to all the members. Though it was known 

 to many of us that he had been in poor health during the 

 summer, yet he seemed to have regained in autumn his wonted 

 vigour, and indeed spoke of himself as feeling better than he 

 had done for years. His school duties had been resumed at 

 the beginning of the session, in October, and all seemed to be 

 going well with him. But on Sunday, October 25, he again 

 began to complain of feeling ill ; was worse on the next day, 

 when the family doctor was summoned ; and passed away 

 peacefully on the evening of the following day, Tuesday, the 

 27th. The immediate cause of death was the rupture of a 

 blood-vessel in the region of the liver. On Friday, October 

 30, he was laid to rest in Warriston Cemetery. At the funeral 

 the Society was represented by Dr Davies, the President, and 

 by Dr Watson, Past President. 



Andrew Moffat was born at Leith on the 20th February 

 1832. The first school he attended was one well known in 

 Leith at that time and for years afterwards as " Walker's 

 School " ; but he soon quitted it for Bathgate Academy. There 

 he made rapid progress, leaving the Academy at the age of 

 fourteen as mathematical dux of the school. He next pro- 

 ceeded to the Eoyal High School, Edinburgh, then under the 

 rectorship of the well-known Dr Leonard Schmitz, where he 

 remained two years, matriculating at Edinburgh University in 

 1848, at the early age of sixteen. During his University 

 course he attended the classes of Humanity and of Greek, 

 taught respectively by Professor Pillans and Professor Dunbar ; 

 the class of Logic and Metaphysics, taught by Sir William 

 Hamilton ; that of Mathematics, by Professor Philip Kelland ; 



