334 Mr. C. O. FarfWharson’s Five Years’ Observations 
intense darkness, to. rescue a small proportion of the 
passengers and crew. 
Captain W. KE. Potter was on the bridge directing till 
the last moment when he told the passengers to save 
themselves, and went down with his ship. There was no 
rushing about or disorder of any kind although for part of 
the time after the first collision all lights were extinguished 
and friends could only recognise each other by their 
voices. 
Mr. A. J. Goodwin, Executive Engineer of the Public 
Works Department, Southern Nigeria, “Farquharson’ s cabin 
companion, remembers his high spirits on the voyage and 
his energy in the deck games, when, with a “ brither 
Scot,” he tried to knock spots off the Sassenach. He was 
the expert on the War, and, with his large maps, most 
helpful when the daily wireless arrived. With the other 
passengers he took his share of watches, an hour-and-a- 
half each, in the danger-zone, and his friend thinks that 
he was on duty that last evening up to 7.0 p.m. Mr. 
Goodwin found him just after the first collision getting his 
coat and life-belt on in the cabin. He was quite cool 
and collected, and being ready first, was on deck before 
his friend. Then came the second collision and they saw 
each other no more. Mr. Goodwin thinks that he may 
have been in an overturned boat from the keel of which 
SIX survivors were rescued after about nine hours. His 
body was found off the Welsh coast and buried at 
Aberdeen. 
The words of his first great teacher in science are a 
fitting conclusion to this brief life of an exceptionally 
gifted and exceptionally well-trained naturalist. 
Among the sons of the University of Aberdeen who 
“have toiled and died in many lands and seas in the ser- 
vice and defence of the British Empire, of freedom, and of 
the just cause .. . none was of higher promise or gave 
more faithful service than Charles Ogilvie Farquharson. 
. His personal friends will retain the memory of an 
earnest, unselfish, and fearless seeker after truth, of great 
ability, but most free from vanity, ready at all times to 
help others by deed as well as by word, whose death has 
brought to them a sense of grievous loss ” (C., pp. 138, 
140). 
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