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Following a practice which has grown to be a usage and a rule, 
I proceed to lay before the Society brief biographical sketches of 
the deceased members, so far as I have been enabled to gather 
materials for this purpose. I shall take them in the order in which 
they have been enumerated above. 
Thomas Login,* born at Stromness, in Orkney, in 1823, studied 
engineering at Dundee. In 1814 he obtained an appointment in 
the Public Works Department in India, and was engaged from 
1847 to 1854 in the construction of the Granges Canal under the 
late Sir P. T. Cautley, who has most cordially acknowledged that 
to Mr Login’s advice and assistance “ he w r as greatly indebted in 
designing and executing that work.” 
After this period Mr Login was invalided and came to England. 
In 1857 he returned to India, where he acted successively as 
executive engineer of the Darjeeling and Roorkee Roads and of the 
Northern Division of the Granges Canal. In 1868 he again came 
to England, returning to India in 1870 to occupy the post of offi- 
ciating superintending engineer at Umballa, where his labours 
were varied and arduous, and a return of his illness cut short his 
useful career on 5th June 1874, while engaged in an inspection of 
the Thibet Road in the Punjaub. 
While resident in India Mr Login made several communications 
on engineering, among which may be mentioned his paper on the 
“ Benefits of irrigation in India, and on the proper construction of 
irrigating canals,” for which he received a Telford Premium from 
the Institution of Civil Engineers ; his “ Description of the Ganges 
Canal,” and recommendations for “ Roads, Railways, and Canals for 
India;” and his paper “ On the Delta of the Irrawaddy,” com 
municated to this Society in 1857. 
Mr Login was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 
and was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1857. 
George Harvey was a native of St Ninians, near Stirling, where 
he was born February 1806. His father, a respectable tradesman 
in that city, and a man of intelligence and piety, trained up his 
children in the fear of God, and in a strict regard to the claims of 
* This sketch has been furnished by David Stevenson, Esq., C.E. 
