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fitting him for extending the subject he was considering, he 

 3^et seems to have given vent to his critical faculties, rather 

 than to striking out into unknown regions. This will be evi- 

 dent in his philosophical flights, as when he applied his Sbnsdy- 

 tical powers to dissect the fundamental bases of abstract 

 dynamics. His forte was in making knowledge his own, and 

 passing it on to others, rather than in making his own know- 

 ledge. 



As would be expected from the qualities 1 have presented, 

 MacGregor was a very expert experimental investigator; 

 with his skill and ingenuit}^ he made anything into apparatus, 

 and made a little go a long way, and made it give him pre- 

 cision too. It would shame any one of us to be asked to re- 

 produce any of his results with the apparatus he used. With 

 it all he had a kindly, warm-hearted and cheery disposition, 

 and a true Scottish loyalty to his friends that made him a 

 delightful companion. His interests were wide, and he had a 

 taste for good things in literature and in art, and he could tell 

 a story or incident well. As a consequence an evening spent 

 with him in the clouds of discussion and of nicotine were hours 

 of real enjoyment. Dalhousie has been fortunate in manj^ 

 things, but in no respect more than in the quality of those 

 members of her staff who dug her ramparts and set up her 

 bulwarks in her early pioneer years, and of these the name of 

 MacGregor is not the least. 



"Forget not the MacGregor."— (Rob Roy). 

 Nova Scotian Inst., of Science, 



May 13, 1918. 



Publications 



By Professor James Gordon MacGregor. 



On the Electrical Conductivity of Certain Saline Solutions, 

 with a Note on the Density. (With J. A. Ewing). T. R. S. E., 

 XXVII, 51-70, 1873. 



