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Obituary Notices. 
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T. Lindsay Galloway, M.A., F.G.S., A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M.E. 
By Professor W. P. Ker, F.B.A., M.A. 
(Read January 9, 1922.) 
The following lines are written not as part of a biography but in order 
to bring out what Lindsay Galloway’s contemporaries recognised in him, 
his combination of scientific attainments and ability with practical good 
sense and very wide interests in literature and philosophy, and to pay 
honour to a man whose friends found him always unfailing in honour 
and goodwill. 
Lindsay Galloway distinguished himself at Glasgow University in 
mathematics and natural philosophy. Sir William Thomson (not yet 
Lord Kelvin) regarded him as one of his most brilliant students, and 
entrusted him, when he was not much more than twenty, with the task 
of testing the new piano- wire invention for deep-sea soundings in a voyage 
to Brazil. Galloway was so successful that the Brazilian Government 
asked him to do the soundings for them along their coast from Para to 
Pernambuco. He might have found a career there, but he had determined 
to work as a mining engineer, and it was with the experience that he had 
acquired on the Tyne that he settled down in Kintyre at the Drumlemble 
coal-pit. 
Lindsay Galloway had sat under both William Thomson and Edward 
Caird, and he followed all his life the studies of science and philosophy 
which he began under these masters. His work in mathematics and 
physics gave him a great advantage over most moral philosophers, while 
his philosophy made him sceptical about the more positive and dogmatic 
theories of Nature which were popular fifty years ago. He was also a 
good scholar and a lover of poetry. Indeed, very few men of his time 
have come nearer to the old ideal of the humanities ; there was no province 
of knowledge in which he could not find his way. He shared with 
Mr Macdonald of Largie in the foundation of the Archaeological Society 
of Kintyre, and was ready to give his time and energy to an adventure 
which would have been profitable in results for the history of Scotland 
— which yet may be successful in spite of the sudden loss of two of the 
leaders. 
Within the last few years Galloway gave some attention to the im- 
provement of a method of determining “the relative directions of two 
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