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the Makdougall-Brisbane prize by the Council of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1910, 
and died at Reading on September 4, 1915. 
Sir Charles Augustus Hartley, Kt., K.C.M.G., was born in 1825. 
Since 1856, when he was appointed Engineer-in-Chief to the European 
Commission of the Danube, he was engaged in many very important 
national and international questions of engineering ; for example, he was 
one of the Congress which met at Paris to decide on the best route for a 
ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama, and was consulted on such 
questions as the enlargement of the port of Trieste, the improvement of 
the Don and Dnieper, the commercial harbours of Constanza, Bourgas, and 
Yarna, etc. etc. He published works on the Delta of the Danube , on 
Inland, Navigations in Europe, and on the History of the Engineering 
Works of the Suez Canal. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1869, 
and died on February 20, 1915. 
Archibald Hew at, F.F.A., F.I.A., was born in Edinburgh in 1838. He 
gained his knowledge and experience in various life assurance offices, 
and finally became closely associated with the Edinburgh Life Assurance 
Company in his successive capacities of Secretary and Manager. He was 
author of a number of papers on subjects dealing with Life Assurance, and 
he also lectured from time to time before various societies throughout the 
country on similar questions. After his retirement in 1911 from his post 
as Manager in the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company, he devoted his 
services to pension schemes in connection with ministers of the Church of 
Scotland. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1908, 
and died in April 1915 while spending his Easter holiday at Keswick. 
John Halliday Scott, M.D., M.R.C.S., was born at Edinburgh on 
December 28, 1851. He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution, and 
after a distinguished career as a medical student graduated Bachelor of 
Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1874. In 1877 he was 
appointed Professor of Anatomy in Otago University, Dunedin, New 
Zealand, a position which he held to his death in 1914. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1880. 
(. Issued separately May 8, 1916.) 
