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well read in many subjects, and proved himself a capable lecturer 
on art, politics, and many other subjects, in which he took a deep 
interest. Possessed of a warm and affectionate nature, he will be 
long remembered for the interest he took in every one with whom 
he came in contact, and the generous, but wise, assistance he was 
ever ready to afford in advancing the well-being of all who had the 
good fortune to know him. 
Among the papers which he wrote were “ The Worth of Wages ” ; 
“ Dimensions of Sea-going Ships ” ; “ On the Difficulties of Speed 
Calculations,” for the latter paper he was awarded the Marine 
Engineering Medal of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 
in Scotland; “ The Speed and Carrying of Screw Steamers,” being 
the Watt Lecture delivered before the Philosophical Society of 
Greenock; “On the Question of Success”; “ Christianity in this 
Life ” ; of the latter he was only spared to conclude the first part. 
Mr Denny was appointed by the Government a member of the 
Load Line Committee, and he took an active part in all its investi- 
gations. He was a member of Council of the Institution of Naval 
Architects, a member of the Institution of Engineers and Ship- 
builders in Scotland, of which he was president at the time of his 
death. He was also member of the Institution of Civil Engineers 
and of the Iron and Steel Institute. He was elected a Eellow of 
this Society on 3rd February 1879. 
Dr Daniel Rutherford Haldane. — From materials 
supplied by Dr John Smith, LL.D., and Dr 
Heron Watson. 
Dr D. Rutherford Haldane was the son of James Alexander 
Haldane, who founded the Scottish Congregational body, and has 
sometimes been called the Wliitefield of Scotland. He was of the 
family of the Haldanes of Gleneagles. 
Our deceased Fellow was educated at the High School of 
Edinburgh, and during the six years of his attendance there his 
usual place in class was about third, — the dux for the first three 
years being “ blind Laurie,” and when that distinguished pupil left, 
