SECTION G.— ENGINEERING. 



THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF SCIENCE 

 AND ENGINEERING, WITH SOME 



EXAMPLES. 



ADDRESS BY 



Sir ERNEST MOIR, Bart., M.Inst.C.E., M.Am.Soc.C.E., 



PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION, 



Preliminary Statement. 



As President of Section G I feel greatly honoured in addressing you after 

 the many able men who have done so in the past. Many of my predecessors 

 I have known personally, and it is with hesitation I address you now, in 

 view of my knowledge of the giants they were in their various walks of 

 life. To name a few. Sir John Fowler, with whom, when little more than 

 a boy of twenty, I frequently walked under the shadow of that great 

 structure, the Forth Bridge, created in the mind of himself and Sir Benja- 

 min Baker, whom I met more frequently and in closer friendship while I 

 was in charge of the erection of his masterpiece. When I was twenty-two, 

 I was placed by William Arrol in charge of the erection of the first portion 

 of the Forth Bridge on its present site. Though Sir William Arrol never 

 figured as your President, he was a man of fearless action and great fore- 

 sight. He never doubted that any difficulty arising would be overcome, 

 and he was never fearful of results and of his powers to succeed. John 

 Fowler gave to his partner, Benjamin Baker, full credit for his great 

 achievement in the design of the Forth Bridge, that was and is still his 

 outstanding work, though many triumphs awaited him in later years. 

 The great and lovable Frederick Bramwell, though not technically so 

 supreme a master, his mind being rather of the judicial character, as is 

 shown in some of his arbitration awards, was another of those who have 

 given you masterly addresses. Yet another is Sir John Wolfe Barry, with 

 his broad mind and outlook, giving confidence to all who approached him, 

 always showing a sense of fair play in his judgments between the companies 

 whom he faithfully served, but never allowing them to influence his deter- 

 minations between themselves and the contractors when they differed 

 about their respective responsibilities for happenings entailing payments. 

 This characteristic enabled him to get the work he designed carried out 

 more cheaply, since risks were less onerous under him than under many 

 others practising during his active career. Next, Sir Douglas and Sir 

 Francis Fox were a pair of brothers who left their mark on big undertakings, 

 and Douglas was among those who have addressed you metaphorically 

 from this rostrum. Alexander Kennedy is now only a memory, but what 

 a memory and example he was to us all, and what a delightful and varied 



