118 Obituary Notices of Fdlows deceased. 



by Poncelet and Morin, and he paid Mr. Pole the compliment of 

 transferring the work to him. Mr. Pole completed the experiments, 

 and his Report, dated April, 1844, will be found in the Proceedings 

 of the Association for that year. 



The engine which had been experimented on was a " Cornish Pump- 

 ing Engine " ; and as this form of engine had excited much interest 

 among Mechanical Engineers, Mr. Pole took the opportunity of study- 

 ing it thoroughly, and publishing a somewhat elaborate treatise upon 

 it, in which the British Association experiments were further dis- 

 cussed, and their practical application was more extensively explained. 



In 1844 the East India Company established a class in the Elphin- 

 stone College, Bombay, for training some of the best educated native 

 young men as Assistants on Public Works, and Mr. Pole was appointed 

 " Professor of Engineering" for the purpose. He filled the office till 

 1847, when he was obliged, by reason of his health, to return home and 

 resume his practice in London. At a later time (1859) he accepted a 

 similar appointment in University College, London, which he held 

 for some years. 



He undertook much scientific Engineering- work for the Government, 



In 1857 he reported on some elaborate hydraulic questions con- 

 nected with Metropolitan Main Drainage. From 1861 to 1864 he 

 served as a Member of the Iron Armour Committee, who, by careful 

 study and long-continued experiments, laid the foundation of the know- 

 ledge on this important subject, since so largely applied. 



He was chosen, on account of his technical and scientific acquire- 

 ments, as Secretary to three Royal Commissions of much public 

 importance namely, that of the Duke of Devonshire in 1865 on Rail- 

 ways ; that of the Duke of Richmond in 1867-9 on Water Supply; 

 and that of Lord Bramwell in 1882-4 on the Purity of the Thames. 

 He also rendered special aid to the Government in their introduction 

 into London in 1871 of the System of Constant Water Service. 



He was engaged to deliver periodical lectures on the principles of 

 Civil Engineering to the students at the Royal Engineer Establishment 

 at Chatham, and, following up the Iron Armour investigations, he gave 

 a course (afterwards published) to the Royal Naval School on the 

 structural use of Iron generally. 



In 1871 he held, for the India Office, a Public Engineering Ex- 

 amination of Candidates for employment on the Public Works of 

 India. 



In 1870 he was nominated by the Board of Trade as one of the 

 %< Metropolitan Gas Referees," a scientific body established by Parlia- 

 ment to control the gas supply of London. This office he held for 

 more than a quarter of a century. 



Mr. Pole's private practice extended to a great variety of work, in 



