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James M‘Cubbin, B.A., Kilsyth, was elected a Fellow of the Society in 
1899, and died on 2nd September 1913. He was latterly Rector of the 
Burgh Academy, Kilsyth. 
Hugh Marshall, D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, Dundee Uni- 
versity College, was elected a Fellow in 1888, and died on 6th September 1913, 
at the early age of 46. He had a distinguished career at the University of 
Edinburgh, graduating as D.Sc., in his 21st year, a triumph which, so far 
as I know, is unique. He was for a number of years assistant to Professor 
Crum Brown, and Lecturer in the University on Mineralogy and Crystallo- 
graphy, until his appointment to the chair of Chemistry at Dundee in 1908. 
Although his time was much occupied in teaching, Professor Marshall yet 
found time to engage in original research, and published various valuable 
papers on chemical and crystallographical subjects. The quality of this 
research work was attested by the award of the Gunning “ Joseph Black ” 
Prize of the University, and of the Keith Prize and Medal of this Society, 
as also by his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London. 
Alexander Macfarlane, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., Ontario, Canada, was 
elected in 1878, and died in September 1913, aged 62. He greatly dis- 
tinguished himself as a student of mathematics in the University of 
Edinburgh, where he graduated as D.Sc. — his thesis, “ On Electric Sparks 
in Air,” appearing subsequently in the Transactions of this Society. For 
some time he acted as assistant to the late Professor Chrystal, and in 1885 
was appointed Professor of Physics in Texas University. He latterly 
devoted much attention to the study and development of vector algebras, 
his latest communication on the subject having been read before the 
Congress of Mathematicians which met at Cambridge in 1912. 
Sir Walter Noel Hartley, D.Sc., F.R.S., was elected in 1877, and died 
on 11th September 1913. He was Hon. Fellow of King’s College, London, 
and for some time Professor of Chemistry in the Royal College of Science 
for Ireland. He was author of works on air and its relations to life, and on 
water, air, and disinfectants, and communicated a number of papers to the 
Royal Society of London, the Fellowship of which he attained in 1884. He 
contributed also to the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, the Trans- 
actions of the Chemical Society, and to the publications of various other 
scientific institutions. Amongst the honours conferred upon him in re- 
cognition of his work he was awarded the Longstaff Medal of the Chemical 
Society for researches in spectro-chemistry. 
