24 THE FRESH-WATER LOCHS OF SCOTLAND 
Sir John had been requested to prepare an approximate estimate of the cost 
of completing the survey for Mr Pullar's consideration, and he now asked the 
Council for suggestions as to any scientific observations that might with advantage 
be undertaken in connection with the survey. There was much discussion with 
regard to researches which might be carried out in fresh- water lochs, and Sir John 
was asked to assure Mr Pullar that the Council learned with much satisfaction 
that arrangements were in contemplation for carrying to a successful completion 
the admirable survey which had been commenced by Sir John and Mr Pullar's 
son, Mr F. P. Pullar, who was a member of the Society, and whose death they 
all deplored. 
Conference op the British Association, September 1901 
At the meeting of the British Association in Glasgow in September 1901, the 
President of the Geographical Section (Dr H. R. Mill) was enabled to announce 
that definite arrangements had been made to carry on the work. A conference of 
the Geographical, Geological, and Zoological Sections was held on 16th September, 
1901, for the purpose of considering the scheme of the survey ; the discussion was 
taken part in by Dr Mill, Professor Bonney, Dr John Home, Mr Isaac Thompson, 
Colonel Johnston, Mr Ben. N. Peach, Mr R. M. Clark, Professor Watts, Mr Barrow, 
Mr Cunningham Craig, Mr Dickson, Dr Fullarton, Mr W. S. Bruce, Mr Greenly, 
and the Rev. Frank Knight, and many valuable suggestions were thrown out 
as to the scope of the work. At the conclusion of the discussion, Dr Horne 
formally moved, on behalf of the meeting, the great gratification they all felt 
that this investigation should be carried out by means of the munificence of 
Mr Pullar, and under the administration of Sir John Murray ; the resolution was 
seconded by Mr Peach, and unanimously adopted. 
APPENDIX IV 
Books of Council and iSession 
Extract Registered Trust-Deed by Laurence Pullar, Esq., in favour 
OF Robert Jenkins and Others 
At Edinburgh the Twenty-fifth day of October One thousand nine hundred and 
one the Deed hereinafter engrossed was presented for registration in the Books of 
the Lords of Council and Session for preservation and is registered in the said 
Books as follows : — 
I, Laurence Pullar of The Lea, Bridge of Allan, Considering that m or about 
the year Eighteen hundred and eighty-four the Royal Society of London and the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh addressed communications to her late Majesty's 
Government urging the importance of a bathymetrical survey of the principal 
fresh-water lakes of the United Kingdom, and that a survey on the lines 
indicated in these letters was commenced, so far as regards Scotland, by Sir John 
Murray, K.C.B., and my son, the late Frederick Pattison Pullar, but that 
the said survey was interrupted by the accidental death of my son through 
drowning on the fifteentli day of February last ; and considering that both of 
said Societies recently passed resolutions to the effect that the completion of the 
said survey is a matter of great scientific importance, but notwithstanding this 
there is little likelihood in present circumstances of the survey being taken up by 
any of the Government departments ; and considering that I have now resolved, 
as a memorial of my son, to provide the Funds which I am advised will be 
