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elaborate series of experiments. In 1837 he read a second paper on 

 the same subject, before the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The Society 

 conferred on him their Keith Prize (a gold medal and a sum of 

 money) in 1838, and elected him into their Council. 



His principles of ship construction were first carried into execution 

 in a vessel called the "Wave," built in 1835, and, subsequently, in 

 many others, including the then new fleet of the West India Royal Mail 

 Company, built by a company at Greenock, of which Mr. Russell 

 was the manager. 



He was elected in 1847 a member of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, where he served on the Council, and was chosen one of 

 the Vice-Presidents. In 1849 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society. 



Mr. Scott Russell removed to London in 1844, and became well- 

 known as a ship-builder on the Thames. In the capacity of con- 

 tractor, and also assisting by his advice, he built the Great Eastern 

 steamship, under the direction of the late Mr. Brunei, and constructed 

 the paddle-wheel engines of that large ship. 



His last work in naval construction was the steamer on the Lake of 

 Constance, which carries railway trains between the termini of the 

 German and Swiss railways. 



Besides naval construction, Mr. Russell practised in other fields of 

 engineering, one of his principal works being the great dome of the 

 Vienna Exhibition of 1873. 



Mr. Russell was appointed joint secretary with Sir Stafford North- 

 cote of the Exhibition of 1851. 



Although not a contributor to the papers in the Royal Society, yet 

 he was the author of more than forty papers read at other Societies, 

 including the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Association, 

 and the Institutions of Civil Engineers and Naval Architects. In the 

 latter Society he always took an active interest and was one of its 

 earliest promoters. 



Mr. Scott Russell was the author of the article on the steam- 

 engine in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, also a large work called the 

 " Modern System of Naval Architecture for Commerce and War," 

 and of a work on " Technical Education for the English People." 



He was an accomplished linguist, and as a speaker possessed great 

 clearness and skill in exposition. W. H. B. 



The subject of this memoir, Coloeel J. T. Smith, R.E., the son 

 of George Smith, Esq., of Edwalton, Notts, and afterwards of Foelallfc, 

 Cardiganshire, was born in or about the year 1805. 



Destined for a military career, he was educated at Addiscombe, and 

 in 1825 proceeded to India as an Officer of Engineers. 



Upon being appointed to arrange a system of lights for the South 



