12 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1886, 
and died on February 24, 1917. 
Robert Robertson, M.A., was born at Thornhill, Perthshire, in 1850. 
After training as pupil teacher and also at Moray House, the Free 
Church Training College, he entered the University of Edinburgh, gradu- 
ating M.A. in 1874 with Honours in Mathematics. In 1876 he was 
appointed head mathematical master in the Edinburgh Ladies’ College, of 
which he became headmaster in 1891. He retired in 1914. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1896, 
and died on July 8, 1917. 
His eldest son — a brilliant graduate of Edinburgh and Oxford — was 
reported missing at the front in the summer of 1916, and no further 
information has been received concerning him. 
A. E. Scougal, M.A., LL.D., was born at Rothesay in April 1846, and 
was educated at Cheltenham, the Edinburgh Academy, the Edinburgh 
Institution, and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 
1865. In 1869 he was appointed acting inspector of schools, and in 1872, 
under the new Education Act, he was placed in charge of the Border District 
of Scotland. From 1888 to 1899 he had charge of the East Lothian and 
Leith District, and after five years spent in Glasgow he was transferred to 
Edinburgh as chief inspector in the Southern Division, an office which 
carried with it at that time the chief inspectorship of all the Training 
Colleges in Scotland. He finally retired from the service of the Department 
in 1911. In 1915, however, on account of war conditions, he took up again 
the duties of chief inspector of the Training Colleges. The University of 
Edinburgh conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1908. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1889, 
and died on November 6, 1916. 
T. Edgar Underhill, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., was born in Scotland in 1856, 
and graduated M.B., C.M., at the University of Edinburgh in 1876. He 
obtained subsequently the diplomas of the College of Surgeons of Edin- 
burgh and London. He settled at Barnt Green, Worcestershire, as a 
practitioner, and was for some time surgeon in the Guest Hospital, Dudley. 
He was the author of two papers in the Lancet , “Fracture of Three Ribs 
from Muscular Action ” and “ Post-mortem Hyperpyrexia.” 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889, and died on May 
8, 1917. 
