210 THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. [ Sess. UxxI. 
with portrait of Mr. Hunter, appeared in the “ Papermaker ” 
and “ British Paper Trade Journal” for January 2, 1905.] 
Hay HUNTER, 
Minister of St. Andrew’s Church, 
Edinburgh. 
ANDREW SEMPLE. — Surgeon - General Depute Andrew 
Semple, M.D. (St. Andrews), who became a Member of this 
Society in 1891, was born in the parish of Lesmahagow, 
Lanarkshire, to which place he bore through life a warm 
attachment. His father farmed a small holding of his own, 
and the family were long-established and well known in 
the neighbourhood. In Dr. Semple the feeling of kinship 
showed remarkable development; and any fact that con- 
cerned his ancestry, among whom he was proud to reckon 
some zealous upholders of Scotland’s Covenant, was always 
of intense interest to him. He received his professional 
education in Glasgow University, and after some years of 
private practice entered the Army Medical Service. The 
Crimean War was raging then, and the young doctor saw 
life—and death—in the trenches. This was the beginning 
of a long and faithful service rendered to Queen and Country 
in various parts of the Empire. He was stationed at Scutari 
Hospital, saw campaigning in the Abyssinian War, served 
in India and New Brunswick for considerable periods, and 
held various appointments in London and Oxford. He was 
Medical Officer in Charge under Lord Chelmsford in the 
Zulu War, and saw the dead body of the ill-fated Prince 
Imperial of France. When he retired from the service, over 
twenty years ago, he was P.M.O. for Scotland. Thereafter 
till his death, at seventy-four years of age, he lived a quiet 
and studious hfe in Edinburgh, constantly adding to his 
large store of accurate and varied information by wide 
reading and by his connection with the various learned and 
scientific societies of the city. Of a most retiring disposi- 
tion, he made few intimate friendships, but those who knew 
him best (and this was a highly-prized privilege of the writer 
of this note), loved him as, one of the truest and kindest 
of men. 
H. FARQUHAR, 
Minister of West Dalkeith. 
