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excellent description, profusely illustrated with engravings, of the 

 various engineering constructions it contained. 



In 1852 Mr. Bateman was applied to by the Corporation of Glasgow 

 to advise them in regard to their waterworks. Many schemes had 

 been proposed, but Mr. Bateman recommended them to obtain a 

 supply from one of the most celebrated of the Scotch lakes, Loch 

 Katrine. Parliamentary sanction was obtained in the session of 

 1854-5, and the works were finished in 1859. The loch, lying 

 367 feet above the sea, forms a large reservoir for the catchment 

 basin above it, in which the rainfall is very large. To fit the lake for 

 supply purposes, its level was raised 4 feet, and arrangements were 

 made so that it could be drawn down 7 feet in all, giving an available 

 storage of 5600 millions of gallons. The water is conveyed to the 

 town by a conduit twenty-six miles in length. 



In 1855 he was requested by the British Association to prepare a 

 general report on water supply, and, in pursuance of the request, he 

 presented, at the meeting at Glasgow, in September of that year, a 

 communication " On the present state of our knowledge on the 

 Supply of Water to Towns. By John Frederic Bateman, F.G.S." 

 It was a paper of some length and considerable merit. After- 

 stating the general nature of the problem, and giving a historical 

 outline of previous measures, it enumerated the various sources from 

 which towns could be supplied, and discussed their comparative 

 merits, adding examples and statistical data in illustration. 



In 1861, when the British Association held their meeting at Man- 

 chester, under the Presidency of Mr. Fairbairn, his son-in-law 

 undertook the post of President of the Mechanical Section. 



Mr. Bateman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 7, 

 1860. He served on the Council in the years I860 and 1866. 



At the end of 1869, the Viceroy of Egypt invited the Boyal Society 

 to send a representative to be present at the opening of the Suez 

 Canal, and on the recommendation of the President, General Sir 

 Edward Sabine, Mr. Bateman was selected for the duty. On his 

 return he wrote to the President a long report of his visit, which was 

 read to the Society on the 6th January, 1870, and was published in 

 full in the ' Proceedings.' Mr. Bateman gave an interesting historical 

 notice of the negotiations and proceedings which had been going on 

 for many years on the subject, and had terminated in the successful 

 completion of the enterprise. He added a general description of the 

 Canal and of the ceremony of its opening., and he concluded with the 

 following eulogium : — 



" The Canal must be regarded as a great work, more from its 

 relation to the national and commercial interests of the world than 

 from its engineering features. In this light it is impossible to over- 

 estimate its importance. It will effect a total revolution in the mode 



