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native town and also at Airdrie Academy, where he was dux of his class. 
In 1905 he entered the University of Glasgow, where in 1910 he graduated 
with Honours both in Classics and in Mathematics. Two years later he 
graduated B.Sc. in Pure Science. As Carnegie Research Scholar in the 
University of Glasgow he investigated the Absorption of Light by Inorganic 
Salts, the results of which were published in our Proceedings in the year 
1913. In 1912 he was appointed Science Master in Buckhaven Higher 
Grade School, but on the outbreak of war offered his services in the army. 
He obtained his lieutenancy in November 1914. He first went to France 
in August 1915, and was mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct 
in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch of April 30, 1916, and was gazetted Captain 
in the following May. He met his death on August 17, 1916. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913. 
Robert Caird, LL.D., the head of the firm of Messrs Caird & Co., Ship- 
builders, Greenock, was not only a leading authority on marine engineering 
and the construction of ships, but was a man of wide culture both in the 
ancient classics and also in modern languages. He joined the firm founded 
by his father in 1888. Nearly all the present vessels of the Peninsular and 
Oriental Company’s fleet and many other great liners were built by him 
and his brothers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh in 1897, and from 1899 to 1901 was President of the Institution 
of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He received the Honorary 
Degree of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1900, and a few years 
previously had been created a Knight of the Crown of Italy. He also 
gave valuable assistance in the foundation and equipment of the new 
Natural Philosophy Institute in Glasgow University, and in other ways 
showed his keen interest in University affairs in Glasgow. He had a 
genuine interest not only in applied science, but also in the wider problems 
of the development of human civilisation. He was a man of rare generosity 
of spirit and warm affection. Latterly on account of failing health he was 
obliged to give up the many social and scientific gatherings in which he 
delighted. 
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He died at Greenock on December 1, 1915. 
C. T. Clough, LL.D., was born in Yorkshire in 1853, and was educated 
at Rugby and St John’s College, Cambridge. He early joined the staff of 
H.M. Geological Survey, then under the direction of Sir Andrew Ramsay, 
and after some years was transferred to Scotland. As a field geologist in 
intricate country he was second to none, and he had a wide reputation as a 
