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1914-15.] Opening Address by the President. 
him a strongly marked personality has been removed, but not before he 
had established his reputation as the foremost oceanographer of his day. 
An excellent observer and a diligent student of the work of others, he was 
specially distinguished as a bold and brilliant generaliser. Many of his 
novel views and theories, it is true, have been keenly controverted, but 
their suggestiveness cannot be denied, and they have undoubtedly stimu- 
lated and inspired scientific research in many directions. 
Sir John Murray became a member of this Society in 1877. He served 
on the Council for three terms, was Secretary to the ordinary meetings for 
nine years, and Vice-President for two terms. 
The notices I shall now read are also prepared by Dr Knott : — 
John W. Inglis, M.Inst.C.E., was born in 1838, and at the age of 
23 went to India as a Civil Engineer. As a volunteer in the artillery he 
served in the Indian Mutiny. He was engaged in various engineering 
works in the province of Oudh, and was student at Lucknow till 1865. 
He then proceeded to Fyzabad and did much important work in the 
building of bridges and the making of roads throughout the district. 
Latterly he was employed in various divisions of the Lower Ganges Canal. 
Since his retirement in 1880 he settled in Edinburgh and was fre- 
quently seen at our ordinary meetings. He died on I7th March 1914. 
David Patrick, M.A., LL.D., was born in Lochwinnoch, Ayrshire, in 1849, 
and was educated at the Ayr Academy and the University of Edinburgh. 
With the intention of entering the Church he studied at the New College, 
and gained the Cunningham Fellowship at the close of his four years’ 
course. He subsequently studied theology at Tubingen, Berlin, Leipzig, 
and Gottingen. He then determined on a literary career. 
He was introduced to encyclopaedical work as one of the staff who 
assisted Dr J. M. Ross of the Edinburgh High School in producing the 
Globe Encyclopcedia. After a few years he entered the publishing house 
of Messrs W. & R. Chambers as assistant to Dr Findlater in the Literary 
Department, and ultimately became head of the literary staff. He was 
editor of the revised edition of Chambers’s Encyclojorndia which appeared 
between 1888 and 1892 ; brought out a completely new issue of Chambers s 
Cyclopcedia of English Literature (1901-3), and also edited a small bio- 
graphical dictionary in 1897. 
His duties as editor and part author of these important works brought 
him into touch with the best literary life of our country. In spite of 
these absorbing literary activities he retained his keen interest in theo- 
