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of Salmon Fisheries for Scotland, and in 1898 became Chief Inspector of 
Fisheries for England and Wales, and subsequently held the appointment 
of Assistant Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. He 
served on the Royal Commission on Salmon Fisheries from 1900 to 1902, 
and on the Committee on Ichthyological Research. In 1908 he became 
President of the International Council charged with the exploration of the 
North Sea, a subject to which he devoted the closest attention. Failing 
health compelled him to retire from active service in 1912. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1893, 
and died in Norway on August 19, 1917. 
Benjamin Hall Blyth, M.A., V.P. Inst. C.E., was born at Edinburgh 
on May 25, 1849. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh in 1898, and died on May 13, 1917. 
An Obituary Notice by W. A. Tait, D.Sc., will be found in vol. 
xxxvii, p. 387. 
John Ferguson, M.A., LL.D.,was born in the East of Scotland in 1837, 
and was educated at the Glasgow High School and the Old Glasgow 
College, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. He was appointed Professor 
of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow in 1874, and continued to do 
the work of that chair until his resignation in November 1916. He had 
a strong interest in archaeological and historical questions, especially m 
connection with the development of chemistry, and he communicated to 
various journals and periodicals noteworthy papers along these lines. 
He was an Honorary Member of the Imperial Military Academy of 
Medicine of Petrograd, and a Foreign Member of the Societe Fra^aise 
d’Archeologie. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1888, 
and died on November 2, 1916. 
Charles Frederick Pollock, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., was born in 1856. He 
studied medicine in the University of Glasgow, where he graduated M.B. 
in 1880 and M.D. in 1882. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of 
Surgeons both of Edinburgh and London, and a Licentiate of the Royal 
College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He devoted himself especially to 
ophthalmology, and held several important positions in Glasgow hospitals. 
He was the author of Normal and Pathological Histology of the Human 
Eye and Eyelids , 1886, and Leprosy as a Cause of Blindness, 1889, and 
“ Aids to Ophthalmology,” Hospital Gazette, 1885-86. 
