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THE FKESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND 
his own private workshop, in which he had many ingenious and interesting 
mechanical, electrical, and photographic contrivances, together with considerable 
geological collections. He was an enthusiastic cyclist, and within the last year or 
two had three or four kinds of motor vehicles. He had an intimate knowledge 
of these machines, and his advice was frequently sought by automobilists ; 
indeed, he proceeded to the scene of the disaster in a motor car, which was 
standing at the side of the loch when he met his death. He was an Associate of 
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and an active member of the Automobile 
Club. 
"About three years ago, in conjunction with Sir John Murray, he undertook 
a systematic bathy metrical survey of all the lochs of Scotland, and here his 
mechanical knowledge and inventive genius were at once exhibited by the 
imjDrovements he made in the apparatus for taking the soundings. A portable 
machine was constructed from his designs, which could be firmly and rapidly 
fixed to the gunwale of the boat from which the soundings were to be taken. He 
also carried out many improvements in the methods of taking tem]3eratures by 
means of deep-sea thermometers, in the plungers used for procuring samples of 
the deposits, and in the apparatus for the capture of organisms at intermediate 
depths. At the time of his death, among other improvements, he had in con- 
templation the construction of a motor engine which could be applied to the 
propulsion of both a car and a boat, so that he might carry with him from his 
home a boat for taking soundings, transfer the engine to the boat, and re-transfer 
it when tlie work was finished to the car again. The publication of the results of 
the researches in the Scottish lochs was commenced last year, the first instalment, 
dealing with the lochs of the Callander and Trossaclis district, being published in 
the Geographical Journal and Scottish Geographical Magazifie in April last ; and 
the present number contains a further instalment, dealing with the remaining 
lochs in the Forth basin. The survey of some other lochs has been completed, 
but the results are not yet in a state for publication. 
" In September last Sir John Murray left Britain for the purpose of carrying 
out explorations on Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, and it was arranged 
that the paper in this Number should be put into form and passed for press by 
Mr Pullar, with assistance in the Challenger Office. Sir John Murray returned 
to London on the evening of February 16, and on arrival at his hotel was handed 
a telegram announcing the death of his young friend on the previous day. They 
had made arrangements to devote most of the coming summer to the sounding 
of the lochs, with a view to the speedy completion of the entire survey : this 
important work will necessarily be interrupted by Mr Pullar's lamented death. 
" Mr Pullar was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1896, 
and he was also a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society ; last month 
he was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
" Mr Pullar was beloved by all who knew" him. He was a man of great bodily 
and mental activity, lively disposition, generous and brave, knowing no fear. His 
friends were justified in believing that a great future lay before him. His 
promising career has been cut short by an act of devotion. He sacrificed his 
life in an heroic endeavour to save the life of another. 
His life was gentle ; and the elements 
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, ' This was a man ! ' 
"James Chumley. 
" Challenger Office, 
" EDINBURGH; 27th February 1901." 
