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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
Professor Andrew Jamieson, M.Inst.C.E. By Mr J. Wilson. 
(Read January 20, 1913.) 
Professor Jamieson, M.Inst.C.E., whose death took place on the 4th 
December 1912, at his residence, 16 Rosslyn Terrace, Kelvinside, Glasgow, 
W., was well known throughout the country as a consulting engineer and 
as the author of a large number of standard text-books on electrical and 
engineering subjects. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh in 1882. 
Professor Jamieson, who was the eldest son of the late Rev. George 
Jamieson, D.D., of Old Machar Cathedral, Aberdeen, was born at Grange, 
Banffshire, in 1849, and received his education at the Gymnasium, Old 
Aberdeen, and at Aberdeen University. His apprenticeship was served 
with Messrs Hall, Russel & Co., marine engineers and shipbuilders, 
Aberdeen Ironwork. He afterwards entered the service of the Great North 
of Scotland Railway Company, ultimately attaining the position of chief 
draughtsman in the loco, and carriage department. When only twenty-three 
years of age he was appointed assistant to Sir William Thomson (Lord 
Kelvin) and Professor Fleeming Jenkin, who placed him in charge of the 
testing staff, to supervise the manufacture of the submarine cables at the 
Woolwich works of Messrs Siemens Bros. 
Then followed several years during which Mr Jamieson was mostly 
abroad. For two years he acted as chief electrical assistant to Thomson 
and Jenkin, along the coast of Brazil, for the Western Brazilian, and 
Platino-Brazilian Companies. On returning to this country, the late Sir 
John Pender and Sir James Anderson appointed him chief electrician to the 
Eastern Telegraph Company, and he was sent to the Mediterranean to super- 
intend the laying of the Marseilles-Malta cable. During the next three 
years, from 1877 to 1880, Mr Jamieson obtained great experience and played 
a prominent part in extending the Eastern Telegraph Company’s sphere of 
operations in the Mediterranean and along the East African and Indian 
coasts. In 1878 he acted as electrician to the expedition which was en- 
trusted with the work of maintaining comm unicationjbet ween the Admiralty 
in London and the Black Sea Fleet during the Russo-Turkish war. 
In 1880 Mr Jamieson resigned his position with the Eastern Telegraph 
Company to become Principal of the Glasgow College of Science and Art. 
In 1887, when this institution amalgamated with the Mechanics’ Institute and 
Anderson’s College, forming the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical 
