AGS Magazine November 1928

THE

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pVolume XXXII, No. 1.

November, 1928.

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tberbeen &amnia School tlTaga3ine Vol. XXXII.

NOVEMBER, 1928.

No. I

The " Grammar School Magazine " is issued under the auspices of The Former Pupils' Club, in March, June, and November. All communications with regard to the " Magazine " should be addressed to the Editor (the Secretary and Treasurer of the Club), THEODORE WATT, M.A., The Rosemount Press, Aberdeen. *4, 4' Members of the Club are requested to inform the Secretary of any change of address.

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The School Boarding House.

An Appeal to Former Pupils.

The School Boarding House was opened for business at the beginning of the present session, and thus, after much thought and preparation, a scheme which has an important bearing on the welfare of the School has at last come into operation. In the spring of this year the prospectus of the Company (about which some particulars were given in previous numbers of the Magazine) was issued, and in response to the appeal for capital the sum of £2,700 was received. This enabled the Directors to purchase and equip the property No. 8 Queen's Road. This house has been furnished in a very attractive and serviceable manner. The principal rooms are large, airy, and well lighted. The house is conveniently arranged, well equipped in every way, and provides an admirable " home from home " for the boarders. The House Master is Mr. J. S. M. Eddison, one of the English Masters on the staff of the School, and the Matron is Miss C. M. R. Mayor, who is a fully qualified Matron and Nurse, and has had considerable previous experience as Matron in other establishments. The Rector of the School is ex officio one of the Directors of the

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Boarding House Company. There are at present twelve boarders in the house, and in January there will be fourteen.

The House was opened and began to " function " without any ceremony, but prior to the opening there was an informal gathering of the Directors and parents, when an opportunity was given of making a thorough inspection of the premises, and cordial approval was expressed of all that had been done.

The first stage of the scheme has thus been successfully accomplished, but much remains to be done before the Boarding House is adequate to the full needs of the School. The present property does not nearly meet the demands that are being made for boarding accommodation. The Directors have the opportunity of acquiring the adjoining property, No. 8f Queen's Road, and they would like to link up the two properties and thus make a single, well-equipped establishment, which would provide room for somewhere about forty boarders. To do this, however, more capital is necessary.

It is roughly estimated that for acquiring the second house, furnishing it, and carrying out the necessary structural alterations about £2,500 will have to be subscribed. As the matter is rather urgent, all Former Pupils, and especially those who are parents of prospective boarders, are asked to take it into their serious consideration, and by applying for shares in the Company, or by sending donations, enable the Directors to complete the scheme before the next School session starts.

In response to the first appeal the following donations were received, and employed in the purchase of shares in the name of the Former Pupils' Club :— . .£100 0 . .

C. J. Davidson, advocate, Aberdeen Rev. Professor Adam F. Findlay, D.D., 41 Queen's Road, 1 0 Aberdeen . 100 0 . . .

John M. Fyfe, Pitfodels House, Cults .

1 0 Rev. John Hector, D.D., 29 King's Gate, Aberdeen .

W. Ernest Milne, c/o Milne & Middleton, 347 Water Street, . .

5 0 . . . . .

Vancouver, B.C. Edwin Morgan, cio The Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1 0 . . . . . . .

Nelson, B.C. .

Daniel Peterkin, 717 Railway Exchange, Chicago, U.S.A. 10 0 George T. Simpson, Jodhpur State Railway, Jodhpur, .

0 10 . . . . .

Rajputana, India .

Dr. James Troup, Brampton, 6 Brocklebank Road, South3 3 . . . . . . . . port .

John Young, American Water Works and Electric Co., 50 2 0 . . . . .

Broad Street, New York .

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Applications for shares should be addressed to the Secretary of the Boarding House Company, Mr. James C. Duffus, LL.B., advocate, 7 Golden Square, Aberdeen ; and donations should be sent to the Secretary of the F.P. Club.

Aberdeen Grammar School:Magazine.

*.• It is requested that the Editor be informed of all new appointments and interesting incidents in the careers of Former Pupils.

The dates given in parentheses after names indicate the sessions of attendance at the School.

George Adam* (1889-93), M.A., has been elected President of the Glasgow Branch of the Simplified Spelling Society.

Herbert Alexander Darg Alexander (1906-12), M.A., of the U.F. Church, Harthill, has received a unanimous call to Anderston U.F. Church, Glasgow.

Robert Denham Alexander* (1917-20) is now accountant with the Union Bank of Scotland at Kirriemuir.

David Sinclair Allan* (1906-07), who went out to India in 1913 as an engineer on a tea plantation, and during the War held a commission in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, has recently become a Life Member of the F.P. Club. He is now on the Kangikoah Tea Estate, Panitola P.O., Assam.

James Robb Allan* (1870-71), who was minister of Stoneywood, Aberdeen, for 38 years, and thereafter of Glengaim, Ballater, attained his ministerial jubilee in July last.

He was ordained at Advie, Strathspey, on 11th July, 1878.

Arthur Robert Hall Angus* (1913-16) has recently become a Life Member of the F.P. Club. He is on the Kardoora Estate, Meppadi P.O., Wynaad, Malabar, South India.

His brother, Alexander Allan Angus* (1914-19) is on the Wallardie Estate, Vandiperiyar P.O., Travancore, South India.

James Alexander Angus* (1894-99), who was formerly in the service of a firm of architects in Montreal, is now resident in Vancouver, British Columbia.

William Rogie Angus* (1915-21), M.A., B.Sc., has recently been awarded by the University of Aberdeen a Yuill Scholarship in Chemistry of £150, tenable at University College, London.

Avon Alexander Barnet* (1911-19) is now a SubLieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in H.M.S. Emperor of India.

• Indicates Member of Former Pupils' Club.

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John Brebner Barnet* (1911-25) is first assistant on the Sungei Sedu Estate, Banting, Selangor, F.M.S. Victor Ogilvie Bisset* (1903-12) is at present farming at Dunnelin, Toodyay, Western Australia.

William George Rowntree Bodies (1913-22) has been elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (A.R.I.B.A.), after examination, and has received an appointment with Messrs. Kelly & Nicol, architects, Aberdeen.

Charles Ogilvie Will Bowman* (1910-15) has received an appointment with the African and Eastern Trade Corporation on a rubber estate in Calabar. He sailed for Nigeria in July last.

Ian Gordon Brander* (1920-28) is at present a farm pupil with MAITLAND MACKIE (1897-1902) at North Ythsie, Tarves, with a view to going abroad next spring. He is a grandson of PATRICK REID* (1861-65), one of the oldest members of the F.P. Club.

Edward Brodie* (1910-19) was in July admitted a member of the Aberdeen Society of Accountants.

Charles Grant Brown* (1921-24), M.A., is President of the Students' Representative Council of the University of Aberdeen, and in this capacity introduced Lord Birkenhead on the occasion of his recent Rectorial Address. The Secretary of the S.R.C. is William Harkins* (1916-22), M.A., and the Treasurer, John G. Grant* (1906-12), M.A., C.A. James Donald Brown* (1916-20), B.Sc. (Agr.), who is a Superintendent of Agriculture in Northern Nigeria, is at present at his home in Orkney on leave. He says that so far he has not met any other F.P. in Nigeria.

Eric Robertson Garden Bruce* (1909-18), who was formerly in the service of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, has for more than a year been engaged in rubber planting on the Badenoch Estate, Kuala Ketil, South Kedah, Malay States.

Reginald Errol Butchart* (1894-1906), of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, has been appointed to the Chaplaincy staff of the diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney.

David Cairns (1912-16), son of the Very Rev. Principal D. S. Cairns, was in July placed in Class I in the Final Honour School of Literae Humaniores (" Greats ") at Oxford. After leaving the Grammar School he continued his studies at Merchiston, Aberdeen University, and Balliol College, Oxford.

He has been nominated by the Presbytery of Aberdeen as a student of the U.F. Church College.

George Gordon Cameron* (1915-17), M.A., son of Rev. GEORGE GORDON CAMERON (1889-91), M.A., B.D., of

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Rutherford U.F. Church, Aberdeen, was in September licensed as a preacher by the U.F. Church Presbytery of Aberdeen.

Alexander Whincup Carle* (1914-20) has left for India to take up an appointment with the Bengal and NorthWestern Railway Co., Ltd., as an assistant locomotive superintendent.

William Christie* (1916-18), who is employed as an engineer with the Demerara Sugar Estates Company, is at present at home on leave from Demerara, British Guiana.

James Bryce Clarke* (1896-99) and John William Taylor* (1906-11), M.A., the F.P. Club Consuls respectively for Poland and Czechoslovakia, held a " Conference of Club Consuls of Central Europe " at Carlsbad on 28th September, when they sent a cheery post card to the Secretary of the F.P. Club announcing that it had been " unanimously resolved by the Conference to drink his health in Sprudel."

Lindsay Douglas Cox* (1898-1903), director of Goldies Motor Supplies, Johannesburg, has recently rejoined the F.P. Club. He emigrated to South Africa in 1904, and since 1919 has been engaged in the supply of motor accessories and equipment. He was home during the past summer for a brief holiday.

Ernest Denny Logie Danson* (1892-94), M.A., D.D., Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, in a letter to the Secretary of the F.P. Club, written at The Residency, Brunei, in July last, stated that he was then the guest of an F.P.— Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron (1904-10), who had recently been appointed British Resident of Brunei, a Mohammedan state about the size of Aberdeenshire lying between Sarawak and North Borneo, and therefore in our Bishop's diocese. " It is fine," the Bishop said, " to come across an Aberdonian and an F.P. in this remote State.

McKerron has a very interesting and quite an influential job as Adviser (and really more) to the Sultan of Brunei, a boy of 16. He took me to have an audience with the Sultan this morning. H.H. was interested to learn that we came from the same ' kampong ' (village) in Europe, and doubtless pictured Aberdeen like Brunei. A great feature of this most picturesque place is the number of lake dwellings--little leaf and wood huts built on piles in the middle of a lake, each house having its own boat. The Malay children learn to swim before they can even walk. The name ' Brunei ' is supposed to be the original form of the word ' Borneo,' and the Sultan holds a high place in the Mohammedan world out here. There are several rubber estates owned by Europeans in Brunei, and they are boring for oil in the southern end of the State."

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K.E.O. Lancers (Probyn's Horse), has recently been appointed Adjutant of his regiment. He passed through the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1918, and was posted to the Indian Army in January, 1919.

Robert Walker Duncan* (1878-1880), eldest son of Sergeant Duncan, whom a good many of the older F.P.s will remember as Janitor of the School, has recently retired, after 25 years' service with the Post Office as a postman in Aberdeen. He has been awarded the Imperial Service Medal " in recognition of meritorious service as an officer in the Postal Service," and on his retirement was presented by his colleagues with a gold watch. He served in the Gordon Highlanders from 1887 to 1896, rising to the rank of Sergeant, and then entered the Prison Service. He was called up for service in the South African War, 1899-1902, and received the Queen's Medal with four clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps. He is thus the proud possessor of a medal from each of the three Sovereigns whom he has served.

Robert Weyer Dunlap* (1896-97), B.A., M.D., who since 1969 has been a medical missionary to China of the Presbyterian Church in U.S.A., and has been located in Chefoo since 1913, has now left China and is working at the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, I.J., U.S.A. Arthur Raymond Gordon Emslie* (1919-22) is at present studying in the Poultry Husbandry Department of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario.

John Alexander Simpson Emslie* (1905-17), M.B., is now settled in medical practice at Banchory, Kincardineshire.

James Bryce Esslemont* (1913-24), B.L., was in Octo ber admitted a Member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. He has recently left for Glasgow, where he has entered the office of Messrs. Maclay, Murray and Spens, 169 West George Street.

Robert Forgan* (1898-1908), M.C., M.A., M.D., D.P.H., V. D. Medical Officer for Lanarkshire, is the prospective Labour Candidate for West Renfrew.

George Topham Forrest* (1879--89), F.R.I.B.A., is joint architect with Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A., of the new Lambeth Bridge over the Thames, the revised design for which was agreed to by Parliament in the past summer.

For practical reasons of cost and construction, the original design, which provided a roadway carried on steel girders and footways of reinforced concrete faced with granite, was abandoned. The granite piers and cut-waters of the original design have been retained with some modifications of detail, but instead of the composite steel and concrete construction

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with elliptical arches, segmental arches entirely of steel will be used, and the steelwork formed with standard sections will be shown.

Archer Irvine-Fortescue* (1892-97), D.S.O., Major, R.A.M.C., has received from the King of Iraq the Not-al-Khidmat-al-Faaliah (" Active Service Medal ") granted to British officers of the Iraq Army who took part in the operations in Kurdistan in April, 1927, which resulted in the occupation of Penjwin. Major Irvine-Fortescue, who is at present Inspector of Medical Services, Iraq Army, accompanied the Penjwin column as Senior Medical Officer, and personally rendered first-aid to the wounded in the firing line. Penjwin, a mountain fortress on the Iraq-Persia border, was the last stronghold of the notorious rebel chief, Sheikh Mahmud.

Rex Fowell* (1912-23) has for the last four years been serving his pupilage as a civil engineer in the Aberdeen Harbour Office, under ROBERT GORDON NICOL* (1871-73), C.E. Godfrey Power Geddes* (1903-11), D.S.O., M.A., has recently been promoted to be Major and Second in Command of the 5/7th Gordon Highlanders (T.A.).

Walter William Graham (1883-84), M.A., has resigned the headmastership of Craig Public School, near Montrose, after 39 years' service. He succeeded his father, who was parochial schoolmaster from 1863 to 1889, so that father and son have had a joint record of 65 years' work in the parish.

Basil Lewin Greeson* (1898-1902), who was appointed Rector of Binbrook, Lincoln, in 1914, was in September instituted to the benefice of Crosby by the Archdeacon of Stow, acting for the Bishop of Lincoln. Crosby is a large industrial parish in the Lincolnshire ironstone area, and forms part of the town of Scunthorpe. The patron of the benefice is Sir Berkley Sheffield, Bart., M.P. Norman Jolly (1914-23), M.B., Ch.B., was in September appointed to the resident medical staff of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Francis Henry King* (1916-26) has received an appointment with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, London.

Philip Douglas Lawrence* (1909-16), M.A.—son of the late Mr. Calder M. Lawrence, at one time on the staff of the Grammar School—who has been minister of the U.F. Church, New Deer, since 1922, has accepted a call to St. Margaret's U.F. Church, Dunfermline.

Robert Alexander Lendrum* (1873-78), M.A., D.D., retired from active ministry at St. Margaret's Church, Fairlie, at the end of July, when he and Mrs. Lendrum were presented by members and friends of the Church with a four-valve

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wireless set with loudspeaker. I)r. Lendrum has taken up residence in Brechin.

Roderick Strachan McDonald* (1914-20) is in the service of the National Bank of India, Limited, in Bombay.

John Douglas McHardy* (1915-20) was appointed last year to the Papaaloa Plantation, Hawaii, T.H. Hallcrow McHattie* (1900-02), who has recently become a member of the F.P. Club, is in the Scottish Education Department, Whitehall, London, serving under Mr. John Mackay Thomson, formerly Rector of the School.

George Neil Whyte Mackay* (1922-25)--a nephew of Lord MACKAY*—who on leaving the School went to Kendrew, Cape Province, is now on Section VI, Zebediela Estates, Ltd., by Potgietersrust, Northern Transvaal. His brother, Brian Walter Whyte Mackay* (1913-14 and 1922-23) is still at Kendrew.

Campbell Grant McKenzie* (1910-12), who after the War received an appointment under the Colonial Office in the Political Service of Nigeria, being stationed in Bauchi Province, is at present home on leave. He says that he is still hoping to meet some F.P. in Nigeria, for during all the years he has been there, he has not had the pleasure of meeting one single old " Grammar " boy. " I cannot think," he writes, " of any more interesting and attractive career for a man who is willing to work hard and put up with a certain amount of discomfort (at times) than that of an officer in the Nigerian Political, or any other Department of the Service for that matter. Anyone interested in the Service who would care to obtain information I shall be only too pleased to assist."

A communication addressed to him at The Sports Club, St. James's, London, will always find him. Another F.P. in the Political Service of West Africa is PERCY SHIRREFFS* (1913-16), a letter from whom, it will be recalled, appeared in the last issue of the Magazine, in which he pointed out some of the advantages of, and gave a brief outline of the qualifications necessary for, political service under the Colonial Office. Both these F.P.s appear to be very happy in their work, and others are heartily recommended to consider seriously the advisability of following their example.

Norman McKenzie (1888-90), M.A., of the U.F. Church, Helmsdale, Sutherland, and previously of St. Andrew's Church, Auchterarder, has accepted a call to the Pringle Memorial Church, Fochabers.

Alexander David Mackintosh* (1913-23) has been for the past year and a half in the service of the Imperial Bank of Persia in London, and has just left to take up a post with that Bank in Teheran.

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John Falconer Mackintosh* (1902-12), who for some time after the War was with the Anglo-Siam Corporation, Ltd., in Northern Siam, has for the last two years been with the Sena Sugar Estates, Ltd., Mopea, Zambesi River, Portuguese East Africa. His brother, Alan Cardno Mackintosh* (1914-18) has been on the Wanarajah Estate, Dickoya, Ceylon, for the last five years, and is at present home on leave.

He has seized the opportunity to become a Life Member of the F.P. Club.

John Maclennan* (1914-20) has been elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (A.R.I.B.A.), after examination.

Kenneth McLennan (1889-91), M.A., B.D., of the North U.F. Church, Alexandria, and previously of Fortrose, has accepted a call to be minister of the U.F. Church Prestonpans.

Roderick Ross Forrest MacLennan* (1909-18) has since November of last year been with Messrs. Barrow, Hepburn & Gale, Ltd., tanners and leather merchants, Bermondsey, London. The chairman of this company is James Drummond Smith* (1900-08), M.A., formerly Sir Ernest Cassel Lecturer in Commerce, University of London. For the last two or three years MacLennan has been playing " Rugger " for the London Scottish. He played for England in the International at Inverleith in March, 1925.

William Frederick Forrest MacLennan* (1908-15) has under a Deed of Declaration changed his name to Hamish Forrest MacLennan.

John James Rickard Macleod* (1884-93), M.B., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., was in October inducted to the Chair of Physiology in the University of Aberdeen. An article by him on "Diabetes and the Insulin Treatment "—the subject for which he has become world-famous—appeared in the November Nineteenth Century.

John McPherson* (1900-03), M.D., who was formerly in medical practice at Granville, near Sydney, New South Wales, is now in practice at New Norfolk, Tasmania.

The Right Hon. Lord Meston* of Agra and Dunottar (1876-80), K.C.S.I., LL.D., was duly installed as Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen on 3rd July. After his installation he presided at two graduation ceremonies, one for honorary and higher degrees, and the other for honours and ordinary degrees, and at the close of each he delivered a notable address.

William Meston* (1881-86), M.A., D.D.—a brother of Lord Meston—has retired from the Principalship of the Madras Christian College, which is a constituent part of Madras University. He was appointed Professor of English in the

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Madras College in 1893, and was ordained in 1895. In 1910 he was appointed a Fellow of the University of Madras, and since 1924 has been a Member of the Senate, Academic Council, and Syndicate of the University of Madras. He was a Member of the Legislative Council of Madras in 1921-23 and 1927, and was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal (First Class) in 1921.

He has taken up residence in Edinburgh.

• John Fenton Milne* (1914-20) passed in June, 1925, at Edinburgh, the final examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society, and is now managing a pharmacy at New Southgate, London.

James Monro* (1878- 80) has become a member of the F.P. Club. He is a chartered accountant in Edinburgh.

Hamish Andrew Munro* (1908-21) has recently returned to Upper Assam to take up an appointment as manager of a tea estate.

Alexander Paterson* (1910-21), M.B., Ch.B., who has been on the staff of the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, foi eighteen months, has recently joined the staff of St. James's Hospital, Leeds.

Oswald George Prosser* (1907-18), M.B., has been for over a year in medical practice in Hull, in partnership with another Aberdeen graduate.

Douglas Reid (1900- 05) was sub-accountant of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China at Honkgong and Canton from December, 1919, to November, 1926, and now holds a similar position in the Bank at Bombay. He served his apprenticeship in Parr's Bank, 1911-14.

Frederic Dudley Ross-Keyt* (1901-12), M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Assistant Medical Officer of Health, County Borough of Chester, has been appointed Medical Officer of Health of the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington.

Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge* (1913-24), M.A., was in September placed 18th in the list for 45 vacant positions in the Indian Civil Service. He has been assigned to the Central Provinces, and will pass his probation at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It is very gratifying that the School has begun again to take part successfully in the Indian Civil Service Competitions. Formerly scarcely a year passed without one or more places being secured by F.P.s, and not a few of these rose to very high positions in the Service.

Arthur Leslie Scott* (1908-14), who was appointed a student interpreter in China in 1920, is at present Vice-Consul attached to the British Legation, Peking. After leaving England on the expiration of his home leave in July, 1926, he went out to Shanghai (where, incidentally, he met the Club Consul, GEORGE A. BUYERS), and was immediately on his

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arrival transferred to Amoy, being engaged there for the most part in superintending coolie emigration work. After ten weeks he had a second move, this time to Chungking, which is 1,400 miles up the River Yangtse. He stayed there for only four months (being in charge of the Consulate for the last anxious three weeks) and evacuated the port with the few remaining British subjects on 31st March, 1927, on instructions received after the Nanking " incident " of last year. Then passing through Hankow and Shanghai, he was transferred back to Peking, which he had left in 1924. The official name of the capital is now Peping, one of the changes introduced by the Nationalist Government. " Life in Peking," he says, " is still quite gay, though many foreigners have left. We are now in the middle of the hot, ' muggy ' weather, and have no seaside to go to this year, owing to the railway being cut."

Douglas Somerville Scott (1907-11), M.B.—a brother of the foregoing—is a doctor in the Government Service at Mombasa, East Africa.

Ronald Charles Scrimgeour* (1921-24) is in the service of Messrs. John Scrimgeour & Sons, Ltd., Dundee.

Alexander Sharp* (1922-24) has left Sumatra, where he was engaged in rubber planting, and is now farming in Western Australia.

Percy Charles Brand Shirreffs* (1913-16) has been appointed a District Commissioner, Gold Coast. He has a " little patch" of 1,600 square miles to look after. He " treks " three weeks in every month, and takes a court in every place he comes to.

Sir Andrew Skeen* (1880-86), K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.M.G., Lieut.-General, Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp General, demitted office as Chief of the General Staff in India on 26th October.

James Cruickshank Smith* (1882-83), B.Sc., is now in practice as a consulting technical chemist and chemical engineer at 3 Dyers Buildings, Holborn, London. For many years he has specialized in the technology of oils, pigments, paints, and varnishes, and has been technical adviser and manager to important companies in these industries. He is a Fellow of the Chemical Society and a Member of the Oil and Colour Chemists Association, and has written several technical books on the subjects in which he specializes. He was one of the founders and the first President of the Paint and Varnish Society, which was the first scientific organization specially devoted to furthering the interests of the paint and varnish industry.

Ian Thom* (1912-25) is now engaged in farming at Wydgee, Mount Magnet, Western Australia.

William Renton Topping* (1914-20), M.B., Ch.B., has gone into medical practice at Aston, Birmingham.

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Wallace Troup* (1907-12), M.D., C.M., of Ottawa, an intimation of whose marriage appears on another page, spent his honeymoon visiting Scotland and England. ' A flight to Cologne followed, then up the Rhine to Switzerland, where the kodak worked overtime on Lake Lucerne, Mount Pilatus, and the Jungfrau. A week was left for Paris, and now [at the time of writing, on board the Cunard R.M.S. Alaunia] we are half-way home." Dr. Troup, of course, visited the School. " What a pleasure it was. A little different, a little bigger, but to all appearances the same. I was most cordially greeted

by Kennedy in a sort of Father and Prodigal Son manner.

We carefully examined and admired the Hall. There was H.F.M.S. on the wall, and I could almost hear him hiss his s's.

Nearby, most appropriately, was Dr. McLeod. I was escorted to the Rector's Room and signed the Register, and when I asked to be shown the room where ' Caesar held sway back in 1905-07, Kennedy replied : ' It's nae eese, the desks are a' new eens, and ye winna see yer name.' Then my wife took a ' movie ' of myself rushing down Esslemont Avenue and in through the gate to the entrance near Kennedy's box—just as I had done 20 years ago ! " Tourist traffic from Canada to Europe, Dr. Troup remarks, is becoming enormous, but he feels there should be a little more reciprocity on the part of Britain. Seldom does he see a Scottish tourist in Ottawa, and no one, he declares, has seen Canada if Ottawa has not been in the itinerary. He expects to be in the Capital City for several years, and it would afford him great pleasure to be of assistance to " Grammarians."

Alexander William Walker* (1906-14) has for some years been a constable in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and is at present stationed at Balcarres, Saskatchewan.

Patrick John M. Walker* (1914-20) was in July admitted a member of the Aberdeen Society of Accountants.

Vane Walker (1904-05), M.A., has been appointed priest in charge of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen.

Alexander George Gunn Williamson* (1914-26) is with the Upper Assam Tea Co., Ltd., at Maijan, Dibrugarh, Upper Assam.

Alexander Young* (1914-21) and Robert William Young* (1914-21) recently returned to Mexico, whence they came to this country for their education, and have entered the business of William Young & Co., Sociedad Anonima, in Mexico City.

Thomas Craig Young* (1910-17) has recently received an appointment with Messrs. Price, Waterhouse & Co., chartered accountants, London. Like several others of the younger F.P.s who are qualified as chartered accountants, he went up recently to London in search of a post, and like

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them, he quickly succeeded in obtaining one. He says that he will be delighted to advise any F.P. who is in circumstances similar to those in which he found himself.

Alexander McDonald Younie (1881-86), M.A., has recently retired from the headmastership of Longside Public School, where he has been since 1907. He graduated M.A. at Aberdeen University in 1890, was appointed assistant master in Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, in the following year, and became headmaster of Kinmundy Public School, Longside, in 1896. When he retired, he received a presentation from the people of Longside, the chairman on the occasion being Dr. ALEXANDER WOOD (1884-86), who was a classfellow at the School and the University with Mr. Younie. The Doctor recalled that the Schoolmaster had been in his day a first-class Rugby player.

Edward Lawrence Yule* (1910-21) was in July admitted a Member of the Aberdeen Society of Accountants.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

The School has reason to be proud of the fact that at least half a dozen F.P.s are Fellows of the Royal Society (F.R.S.), and of these three are Members of the Council— Dr. P. CHALMERS MITCHELL* 1879-80), C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc., LL.D. ; Professor JAMES C. PHILIP* (1886-89), M.A. D.Sc. ; and Sir DAVID PRAIN* (1872-73), C.M.G., C.I.E., M.A., M.B., LL.D., who has been Treasurer for a number of years.

F.P.s IN THE ABERDEEN TOWN COUNCIL

Former Pupils of the School are now taking a larger share in local municipal government than has been the case for a long time. In the newly-constituted Town Council of Aberdeen there are four members of the F.P. Club. These are :—Henry Alexander* (1881-91), M.A., who has been reappointed Convener of the Town Planning Committee; John Graham* (1873-74) ; James Hay* (1883-87), M.A., B.L., advocate ; and Edward William Watt* (1883-94), M.A., who has been appointed Assessor of the Council in the Aberdeen University Court. Another member of the Council is Mr. JOHN CLARKE, M.A., LL.D., who, many will remember, was formerly a teacher of classics in the School. He has been. appointed Convener of the Watching Committee.

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY DEGREES AND PRIZES.

At the Summer Graduation of Aberdeen University degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)— William Morton Grant* (1907-12), M.A., B.D., Falkirk. Thesis—" The Interpretation of the

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Apocalyptic Teaching of Jesus in the Light of its Historical Setting."

Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)— Ian George Inns* (1905-08), M.A., B.Sc., B.Sc. (Agr. M.B., Ch.B., Hull—with Commendation. Thesis— " High Blood-Pressure : a Contribution to its Treatment."

Walter Graham* (1916-19), M.B., Ch.B., Aberdeen.

Thesis—" The `Gold' Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Notes on a series of cases treated with Sanocrysin."

Alexander Johnstone* (1904-10), M.A., M.B., Ch.B., Greenock. Thesis-" Some Aspects of Dysentry, with special reference to the Bacillary Form and particularly that type due to Lactose Fermenting Organisms."

Master of Arts (M.A.)— Ralph Spence Walker* (1910-22), with First Class Honours in English.

John Hastie Speirs* (1911-24), with Second Class Honours in English.

William Wilson Michie Ross* (1916-24), with Second Class Honours in Economic Science.

Maxwell Duncan Deans* (1922-25).

Frank Evans Hoggarth* (1921-25).

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture—B.Sc. (Agr. )— Daniel Overbeck Wright* (1915-16), B.Sc. Bachelor of Science in Engineering—B.Sc. (Eng.)— Harold Samuel Milne* (1913-26).

Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) and Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B. )— Brennan Scott Cran (1911-23). Completed Final Medical Examination with Distinction.

Robert Douglas Bruce* (1913-22).

Andrew Dickson* (1911-22).

Norman Jolly (1914-23).

Cecil Sleigh Philip* (1918-21).

George Alexander Wilson* (1920-23).

Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H.)— Arthur James Walker Wilkins (1910-11), M.B., Ch.B., South Africa.

In the Faculty of Arts William W. M. Ross* (1916-24) was awarded the Town Council Prize in Economic Science.

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OBITUARY. Patrick George Allan (1887-91), M.A., died in Aberdeen on 7th October, aged 55 years. After graduating in Arts at Aberdeen University in 1895, he was appointed an assistant master in Kirriemuir Academy, and was thereafter for a number of years on the staff of the Aberdeen Grammar School. He next taught in Walker Road Public School, Aberdeen, and his last post was that of First Assistant in George Street Public School, from which he resigned two years ago on account of ill health.

James Barnet* (1863-66) died at Ugiebrae, Old Deer, on 7th August, aged 77 years. After leaving the School he served his apprenticeship as a marine engineer in Renfrew, and went to sea for a few years in the Glen Line of steamers, sailing between this country and China. He then entered the service of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade as surveyor of ships and examiner of engineers, serving first at Leith and afterwards at Aberdeen. He retired in 1916, but was soon recalled for further service on account of the War. He finally retired in May, 1919, and took up residence at Old Deer, where he promptly associated himself with various activities of the district.

Samuel Grahame Crowden* (1866-67) died at 12 Kilmaurs Road, Edinburgh, on 21st October, aged 73 years.

He served as an apprentice chemist and druggist at Buckle, and in 1874 entered the wholesale drug trade in Edinburgh.

In 1878 he passed the qualifying examination of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and in 1886 became a representative of Messrs. Hodgkinsons, Stead and Treacher, which firm was latterly known as Hodgkinson, Clarke and Ward, and is now one of the component firms of the British Drug Houses, Limited. In their interests he travelled from Newcastle to Inverness, and also visited the principal cities in Ireland. He retired three years ago, and thereafter was more or less an invalid. In an obituary notice in the Pharmaceutical Journal and Pharmacist it is stated: " His sagacious and virile personality, coupled with a fine courtesy and considerate kindliness, and his happy faculty of combining business and friendship made the prospect of his periodical visits to his firm's customers and their staffs much more than a mere incident in the day's routine. His ready and understanding sympathy and his most encouraging and helpful advice, based on a wide and ripe experience, endeared him to the large circle of friends with whom in course of business he was brought in contact."

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died suddenly at Murtle, Aberdeenshire, on 26th June, aged 68 years.

George Findlay (1875-78), M.A., M.B., C.M., died at Brailes, Warwickshire, near the end of September, aged 65 years. Dr. Findlay, who was a half-brother of the Vicountess Dunedin, graduated at Aberdeen University in Arts in 1882, and in Medicine in 1886. He settled at Brailes, building up a large practice and becoming Medical Officer of Health.

A GREAT BIBLIOGRAPHER.

James Fowler Kellas Johnstone* (1858-60), LL.D., died at 67 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen, on 7th September, aged 82 years. After leaving the School he became an apprentice with the late Mr. Alexander Emslie Smith, advocate in Aberdeen, and later qualified as an accountant. He followed his profession for a time in Inveraray, and thereafter in Manchester and London. His life-long passion, however, was books, particularly those associated with Aberdeen and the North-East. There was an element of pathos attaching to his death, for had he lived a few months longer he would have seen the publication of his life-work, the Bibliographia Aberdonensis. This magnum opus, which has been in the press for more than a dozen years, was to have been published in two large quarto volumes by the New Spalding Club, but for various reasons publication was delayed, and on the winding up of the New Spalding Club, the responsibility for the publication of the Bibliography was undertaken by the Third Spalding Club, which is to make Dr. Kellas Johnstone's first volume its initial publication.

It was so long ago as 1870 that Dr. Johnstone began the compilation of bibliographical notes on North-Eastern Scotland, and all his spare time thereafter was given to this work. " What decided him," wrote Dr. J. M. Bulloch in Bon-Accord, " to concentrate on his bibliography of North-East literature was the Hand-List of Aberdeen Books compiled by the late Mr. A. W. Robertson [(1856-62) formerly Public Librarian, Aberdeen]. He saw at, once the vast lacunae in it, and offered to fill them as co-editor of a bigger work. Mr. Robertson's death [in 1911] checked that enterprise, and then he decided to shoulder the work himself for the New Spalding Club—a perfectly colossal task. For the last twenty years, instead of making the money his talents would have easily earned, he did little else than play the Wandering Scholar in all sorts of libraries and hidey-holes where books could be found. With a strong touch of the trader in him—his business training had encouraged that—he got to know all the booksellers''and the great dealers like Quaritch and Dr. Rosenbach. In fact, wherever there was an old Aberdeen book to be found, he

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was on it like a hawk, till at last the data he accumulated grew to such an extent that his bibliography had to exclude modern books altogether. Even then the material which will be published by the newest Spalding Club runs into two huge, closely printed volumes, unmatched in this country as a regional study in bibliography. There will be very little to pick up after his comprehensive comb-out."

In 1914 Dr. Johnstone's preliminary Concise Bibliography of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine was issued as an Aberdeen University Study. He had previously been a very diligent coadjutor in the preparation of the Fasti Academiae Mariscallanae (Records of Marischal College and University), Volumes II and III, published by the New Spalding Club.

He made numerous contributions to the transactions of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, of which he became President, and to those of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society.

He contributed the article on "The Aberdeen University Educator " to the " Studies in the History of the University " published on the occasion of the Quatercentenary in 1906.

In 1915 the University Court of Aberdeen appointed him a member of the University Library Committee, that being the first occasion on which a non-member of the General Council was elected to that Committee. At the Spring Graduation Ceremony of 1925 he received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen, in recognition of his many services to the Library. It is interesting to note that Dr. Johnstone's Bibliographia is now to be published under the superintendence of another F.P., Dr. W. DOUGLAS SIMPSON, the University Librarian.

Dr. Kellas Johnstone was a deeply-interested member of the F.P. Club, and in recent years was present at several of the Annual Dinners. In 1912 he contributed to the Magazine two articles entitled "My Grammar School Experiences, 1858-60," in which he gave a very vivid account of the life of the School as he had known it.

John Kennedy (1875-80), M.A., minister of Birnie, Morayshire, died on 20th October, aged 67 years. He was appointed to Birnie in 1890.

Richard Francis Lister (1913-16) was drowned at sea while yachting on 23rd April last. He had just finished three years' training at the London Hospital, and had qualified as M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. After leaving the Grammar School he went to a private school at Westgate, and from there to Lancing and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a son of the late Dr. Arthur Hugh Lister, formerly of 22 Queen's Road, Aberdeen.

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entered the service of the Bank of Scotland in Aberdeen in July, 1918, and was latterly in the Inspection Department of the Bank in Edinburgh.

Thomas Matthew (1864-66) died at Kilwinning, Ayrshire, on 6th November, in his 81st year. He was appointed minister of the Original Secession Church, Midlem, Presbytery of Edinburgh, in 1875, and was translated to Kilwinning in 1889.

William Alexander Milne (1882-87) died at Maldon, Essex, on 30th August, aged 54 years. After leaving the School he served as an apprentice engineer with Messrs.

Blaikie Brothers, Aberdeen, and then became a marine engineer. He served in the Mercantile Marine during the War. George Clark Moncur (1881-88), youngest surviving son of the late Mr. Nicol Moncur, Adelphi Hotel, Aberdeen, died in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 29th August, aged 55 years. He was for some time associated with the management of the Adelphi Hotel.

Thomas Scott Muir* (1886-87) died after three months' illness on 21st September, aged 55 years. He graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1894, and in the same year was appointed an assistant master in Waid Academy, Anstruther. Two years later he was appointed to the staff of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and in 1898 he became head English master in Morrison's Academy, Crieff. In 1900 he returned to the Royal High School as first assistant French master, and in 1908 was appointed geography master in the same school. He was the author of a number of geographical school-books, and was the founder of the Scottish Ski Club in 1907.

George Newlands* (1902-06), M.A., B.Sc., A.I.C., died in Berlin on 23rd July. After graduating in Science at Aberdeen University, he was Assistant in Geology for four years.

During the War he served as a chemist in factories which produced explosives, his main appointment being that of process chemist and plant superintendent at H.M. Explosive Factory, Oldbury. He became an Associate of the Institute of Chemistry in 1919, and in the following year was appointed manufacturing chemist to Messrs. Chance & Hunt, Ltd., Oldbury. In the same year he was appointed by the Development Commissioners to carry out research work on soil in relation to general agriculture. This work was done in the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen, where he soon became Soils Advisory Officer. His training as a geologist and chemist specially fitted him for such work, and he struck out a new line for himself by taking up the study of the mineralogical constitution of the soil. Both by himself and in collaboration with Professor Hendrick he

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published a number of papers on his special subject. In June last he set out to visit research institutions on the Continent engaged in the investigation of soils and soil properties. He had visited Holland, Germany, Sweden, and Finland, and was on his way to Austria and Hungary when he was taken ill in Berlin. He was the elder son of Mr. George Newlands, 25 Beechgrove Avenue, Aberdeen.

John Charles Willet (1866-71) died at Perth, Western Australia, on 31st July, aged 73 years. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. John Willet, civil engineer, Aberdeen, and was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1882. In 1895 he emigrated to Australia and entered the service of the Government of Western Australia.

Keith Douglas Mackay, son of George Mackay, 1 Hosefield Avenue, Aberdeen, a pupil in Class Lower III A, died on 25th October last.

Marriages.

Adams (1884-86).--At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 4th July, JAMES RITCHIE ADAMS,* tea merchant, youngest son of the late John Adams, Hammerfield House, Great Western Road, to Maggie Barron, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Watt and Mrs. Watt, 5 Oakdale Terrace, Mannofield, Aberdeen.

Barnett (1915-21).—At Charlotte Street U.F. Church, Aberdeen, on 19th September, the Rev. CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BARNETT,* B.D., Finzean, only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Barnett, 18 Watson Street, Aberdeen, to Sarah Jane Ogg (" Jean "), fourth daughter of Mr. H. R. Dowie and the late Mrs. Dowie, 22 Whitehall Place, Aberdeen.

Chedburn (1896-99).—At Layer Rows, Stepps, on 11th September, the Rev. JACKSON STEWART CHEDBURN, of London, son of the late Rev. W. S. Chedburn and Mrs. Chedburn, of Aberdeen, to Florence Evelyn, widow of J. Crombie Saunders, M.A., and daughter of the Rev. P. J. Rollo and Mrs. Rollo, formerly of Glasgow.

Collie (1873-76).—At St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Frognal, London, on 1st October, Sir JoHN COLLIE,• C.M.G., M.D., to Lady Arrol, widow of Sir William Arrol and daughter of the late Mr. James Robertson, formerly manager, National Bank of Scotland.

Copland (1912-13).—At New St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street, Toronto, Canada, on 19th September, Jolts TAYLOR COPLAND,• youngest son of the late Edward Copland, decorator, Aberdeen, and Mrs. Copland, Cranleigh, Newtonhill, to Ethel, third daughter of John A. Stephen, herring exporter, and Mrs. Stephen, Ravenscraig, Newtonhill.

Crombie (1908-21).—At University Chapel, King's College, Old Aberdeen, on 11th July, JAMES IAN CORMACK CROMBIE,* M.A., only son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Crombie, 21 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen, to Janet McDonald, M.A., second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex.

McDonald, 60 Grattan Place, •Fraserburgh.

Davidson (1905-15).—At the Cathedral Square United Free Church, Glasgow, 011 6th September, DONALD ARBUTHNOT DAVIDSON,• second son of the late Andrew Davidson and of Mrs. Davidson, 22 Forest Road, Aberdeen, to Elizabeth Alexander Inglis, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Inglis, Espieside, Coatbridge.

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Emslie (1912-18).—At 244 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, on 26th June, ALAN CUNNINGHAM EMSLIE,* C.A., Fraserburgh, to Frances, daughter of the late Robert Griffith and of Mrs. Griffith, Aberdeen.

Ewing (1901-07).-At St. Chad's Parish Church, Headingley, Leeds, on 15th September, JAMBS EWING, M.A., D.Sc., H.M. Inspector of Schools, only son of James D. Ewing, 451 King Street, Aberdeen, to Marjorie, only daughter of Frank R. Horsfield of Wood Bank, Headingley, I.eeds.

Fraser (1916).—At Rose Cottage, Lossiemouth, on 31st August, ALLAN H. H. FRASER, M.B., Ch.B., B.Sc., younger son of the late George Fraser and of Mrs. Fraser, 10 Ardross Terrace, Inverness, to Wilhelmine (" Minnie "), youngest daughter of the Rev. W. E. Shaw, Lossiemouth.

Graham (1911-18).—At Glasgow, CHARLES GORDON GRAHAM,* Of 13 Queen's Road, Aberdeen, to Muriel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Slater, of Sheffield.

Henderson (1914-17).—At the Peter Memorial Church, Stirling, on 20th September, MURRAY Ross HENDERSON,* F.L.S., Botanic Gardens, Singapore, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Henderson, " St. Cyrus," Banchory, to Margaret Paxton MacCallum, M.A., second daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. Adamson MacCallum, 21 Park Place, Stirling.

Hutchison ((1906-12).--At Trinity U.F. Church, Aberdeen, on 6th August, CHARLES EDWARD HUTCHISON,* second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hutchison, Aberdeen, to Christian Forbes (" Essie "), younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Chalmers, Aberdeen.

Kelly (1906-16).—At the Church of the Transfiguration, Sandbanks, Dorset, on 17th July, WILLIAM KELLY, M.B., Basingstoke, Hants, youngest son of Dr. and Mrs. William Kelly, 62 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen, to Maude Maiwand, only child of the late Captain T. A. Burridge, R.E., and Mrs. Burridge, Lymington Lodge, Sandbanks.

Lawrence (1900- 09).—At Holy Trinity, Brompton, London, on 7th September, ROBERT DANIEL LAWRENCE,• M.A., M.D., younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lawrence, late of Aberdeen, to Doreen Nancy (" Anne "), only daughter of Thomas Batson, M.A., and of Mrs. Batson, late of Rossall.

Melvin (1877-88).—At Douglas House, Turriff, on 14th August, JAMES DOUGLAS MELVIN, J .P., solicitor, of the Orange Free State and Cape Colony, South Africa, to Charlotte (" Lottie "), fifth daughter of the late Charles Mann, late of the Palace and Grand Hotels, Aberdeen, and of Mrs. Mann, of Bath, England.

Middleton (1905-07).—At the North United Free Church, Aberdeen, on 27th September, BRYSON MIDDLETON, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Middleton, 69 Forest Road, to Alexina (" Zena ") Bannochie, third daughter of the late Mr. A. Bannochie and of Mrs. Bannochie, 21 Constitution Street, Aberdeen.

Minty (1910-14).—At the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, on 19th September, GEORGE JAMES MINTY,* of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., son of the late George C. Minty and of Mrs. Minty, 39 Hilton Street, Aberdeen, to Williamina Webster (" Nena "), second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodall, 6 Froghall Road, Aberdeen.

Moir (1914-19).—At St. John's Church, Forfar, on 29th June, WILLIAM KEITH MOIR,* M.A., B.Sc., eldest son of the late James Moir and of Mrs. Moir, 73 Argyll Place, to Janet Whyte, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Fraser, 172 East High Street, Forfar.

Mowat (1915-16).—At King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on 2nd November, JAMES LAWSON MOWAT,■ M.A., Ph.D., Geneva, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Mowat, Forres, to Dorothy Mary, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Phillips Thornley, Forfar.

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Riddell (1907-16).--At St. Mary's Church, Carden Place, Aberdeen on 15th September, JOHN LENNox RIDDELL,* son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Riddell, 16 Bayview Road, Aberdeen, to Phyllis Caroline, daughter of Mrs. W. S. Johnston, Nice, France, and the late J. R. Craddock.

Russell (1907-15).—At Rubislaw Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 23rd October, JAMES ALISTAIR RUSSELL,* architect and surveyor, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, son of the late Rev. James A. Russell (1868-71), and of Mrs. Russell, 9 South Crown Street, Aberdeen, to Jean Melvin, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mackie, 7 Richmond Terrace, Aberdeen.

Smart (1906-14).—At the Cottage, Broomieknowe, on 29th August, WILLIAM FARQUHARSON SMART,* of Malaya, fourth son of Arthur A. Smart, Rivermead, Aberdeen, and the late Mrs. Smart, to Mary Macdonald, younger daughter of John M. Mathieson and Mrs. Mathieson, 40 Belgrave Road, Corstorphine.

Spark (1914-16).—At King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on 15th August, CECIL VIVIAN SPARK,* M.B., Ch.B, to Sophia 0. Henry, M.A., daughter of the late Mr. Henry and Mrs. Henry, High Street, Strichen.

Taggart (1910-16).—At the Douglas Hotel, on 8th August, GEORGE JOSS TAGGART,* M.A., Schoolhouse, Crudie, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Taggart, 140 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen, to Charlotte Taylor, youngest surviving daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Gibb, 69 Stanley Street, Aberdeen.

Thomson (1911-18).—At the West United Free Church, Aberdeen, on 25th August, DAVID LANDSBOROUGH THOMSON,* M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., son of Professor J. Arthur Thomson and Mrs. Thomson, to Marian Stancliffe Collingwood, B.Sc., elder daughter of Arthur Collingwood, F.R.C.O., and Mrs. Collingwood, 4 Rubislaw Place, Aberdeen.

Thomson (1903-06).—At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on 24th September, GEORGE ALEXANDER THOMSON,* of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Kuala Lumpur, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Thomson, 5 Hosefield Avenue, Aberdeen, to Vera Elizabeth Foliberg, daughter of the late Captain Gabriel FrOberg and of Mrs. W. von Normann, Shanghai.

Thow (1914-20).—At St. Columba's, Elgin, on 11th July, GORDON THOW,* M.B., Ch.B., second son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thow, Aberdeen, to Mabel Grant, youngest daughter of Mrs. Robertson, Abbotsrood, Elgin.

Troup (1907-12).—At Ottawa, Canada, on 9th August, WALLACE TROUP,* M.D., to Ruth Johnston, of Ottawa.

Walker (1902-14).—At the Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen, on 3rd September, ANDREW NORMAN WALKER,* eldest son of Mrs. Andrew Walker, 32 Ashley Gardens, Aberdeen, to Catherine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Pirie, 29 Burns Road, Aberdeen.

Whitehead (1911-18).—At St. Ninian's Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 18th September, NORMAN STANLEY WHITEHEAD,* younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Whitehead, 102 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, to Nora Adelaide May, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Adam, 228 Union Street, Aberdeen.

Wilson (1906-12 and 1915-17).—At the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on 13th October, RAYMOND GRAHAM WILSON,* A.M.I.C.E., Singapore, son of Mr. Louis Wilson* (1872-75), Hilo, Hawaii, to Anne Margaret (" Rita "), younger daughter of Mr. W. Lewis, South Africa, and Mrs. Lewis, 2 Polmuir Road, Aberdeen.

Wright (1902-14).—At St. Serf's Parish Church, Edinburgh, on 26th June, MAXWELL CAMPBELL WRIGHT,* M.C., M.B., Ch.B., Manchester, to Jessie R. Morrison.

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A Summer Tour.

Cycle-Camping among the Glens.

At some time or another there comes out in most of us a gangrel streak which refuses to subside again into our civilized natures until it has been appeased with a spell of roving.

With some it may be the lilt of a tramping song, heard consciously or unconsciously, that sets the toes itching for road or heather track ; in others, a glimpse of a picture, even of a Turneresque railway poster, suffices to stir thoughts of camp life and hill tramping ; even an O.S. map, especially if it be well splashed with deepening shades of brown and streaked with a network of winding streams, has power to evoke in the breasts of the initiated a lust for wandering that will not be gainsaid. Then it's out with rucksack and camping gear, and away from crowded streets and seething beach and the everpresent phantom of School to the open highways and pleasant byways that lead in and out among the " Hills of Home."

Such at anyrate, or nearly so, was the, impulse that drove a quintet of Grammarians and an Old Boy (rejuvenated for the nonce) furth of the city last August to explore the beauties of the glens and sample the manifold pleasures of the Open Road.

THROUGH THE MEARNS. There was, perhaps, a lurking sense of the dramatic in the fact that our tryst on the morning of Friday, 3rd August, was by the southward wall of Craiginches Prison: what better starting point for a dash for freedom ? Hearts were beating high in anticipation of what was to the majority a new and strange adventure : a cycle-camping tour, on which we were to carry house and wardrobe for eleven days. Every bicycle had presumably been carefully tested and overhauled, and was laden with all the minimum necessaries for the journey.

Prompt at 8.30 we breasted the Nigg Brae, on the summit of which hung a sea-haze drifting inland before a mild S.E. breeze. Some seven miles out we called a halt to inspect the Big Lad's machine ; and lo ! besides having a broken 3-speed cable, he had been pedalling all this time with his back brakes glued fast to the rims. No wonder he was already fit for bed.

Sufficient repairs were done to allow of progress to Stonehaven, where a nonchalant Ancient reluctantly laid aside his newspaper to bring the misbehaving bicycle up to date ; and by 11 o'clock we were ready to take the road again. A friendly lorry proved a great boon to the Weary One all the long miles to Fettercairn, near which we had a roadside lunch ere moving onwards to the Glenesk road ; there we met with a thin drizzle, not enough, however, to make us don coats, but sufficient to fill the air with the glorious scents of spruce and fir from the woods of the Burn. Some two miles on we dismounted to see

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the ivy-clad Doolie Tower, an old summer-haunt of the Edzell Lindsays, built on an eminence once bare, now wooded, overlooking the deep gorge of the North Esk, which brawls noisily below in its rock-strewn bed. The sultry haze still veiled the hills which began to close in on either hand, but that S.E. breeze was now very helpful as we climbed the Modlach hill.

Crossing its shoulder, we beheld our goal, the village of Tarfside, some two miles ahead ; vague, haze-hidden shapes were all we could distinguish of the long rampart of hills that guards the western end of the glen, stretching from Craig Maskeldie beyond Loch Lee to Mount Keen above the Tanar. By 4 p.m. we were on our camping ground ; the tent was erected and made snug ; tea was most welcome and heartily enjoyed ; and it is to be hoped that our evening ablutions in the Esk had no untoward effects upon the inhabitants of Montrose. The hours till bed-time we passed in quiet strolling along paths in wood and field and moor, or in pleasant discourse with our kindly hostesses, old friends of the F.P. ; and after a midgehaunted supper we turned into our rather spare apartment, moistly confident that the hot and sultry air would prevent any chance of chilliness during the night. And so to bed.

KEEN AND LOCH LEE. Reveille was sounded about 6 a.m. by a heavy thundershower, which kept us under canvas till 7.15, when it cleared and allowed us to gel ready for a good breakfast, stably founded on a plate of porridge. We were not long in taking to the birch-clad road between Rowan Hill and the Esk, hoping the while that the blue haze on the hills would soon disperse and give us scenic reward for our toil. At Invermark Castle, another outpost of the Edzell Lindsays, we switched into Glen Mark by the Mounth Road that winds along to the Queen's Well amongst heather and glacial moraines. Craggy hill slopes closed in upon us, their outlines somewhat softened by the sultry haze through which the sun could not break. A brief halt was made at the stalker's house, where old acquaintance was renewed, and leaving our cycles, we took the Ladder path up Mount Keen, winding steeply above the tumbling burn to the long ridge above. The stony track, flanked here and there by little cairns that serve as guide marks in the winter *snows, led us up to another ridge line, from which we distinguished the peaks of Battock, the Wirren, and the Muckle Cairn above Clova Inn, all rather obscure in the prevailing haze. Westwards the steep precipices above Loch Muick were all that could be seen of the Lochnagar massif. Our eyes however, were caught by the startled forms of a herd of deer, which bounded away towards the hollows beneath the Braid Cairn. Less nimble, we presently reached the rocky summit of Keen (3,077 feet), and there tried to make up for the dis-

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appointment of a lost landscape by demolishing a box of sandwiches and sundries. At 12.40 the descent began, and an hour's easy going sufficed to bring us to Glen Mark again.

A request for milk here was countered by an invitation to a cup o' tea—a sorry misnomer for the bounteous feast that Mrs. Macdonald's hospitality set before us. Never was tea more welcome to parched throats, nor cakes and scones to regions lower down ! About 3 p.m. we said an unwilling farewell to the Glen Mark populace, and ricochetted down the heathery haugh to Invermark Castle, whence we digressed to see Loch Lee. The narrow road by the new-born Esk was a thing of beauty with its border of silver birches, slender and graceful, amongst which lie huge boulders, the stranded " strays" of the vanishing Ice Age when glaciers melted from our Scottish glens. The loch looked gurly and dark, with long shadows that seemed to be the " hidden bases of the hills" ; the queasiness induced by the purple haze overhanging the hills was increased by a distant rumble of thunder, so that we were fain to make a speedy retreat to our headquarters at Tarfside. A bathe in the Esk made us fit for a slap-up tea ; but our evening was spent mostly under canvas, while the rain poured and the gathering thunderstorm re-echoed amid the hills around. The day's adventures, however, soon disposed us to sleep, and no amount of Nature's orchestration could keep us awake. • MOUNT BATTOCK AND EDZELL. Next morning broke warm and hazy again, with the grass wet with the night's rain. Breakfast over, and good-byes said, we set off down the glen in the struggling sunlight, and at Minden Lodge turned up by the tree-sheltered Turret Burn, which we followed to the farm of Aucheen. From there we commenced our climb of Mount Battock, some four miles off, clad as lightly as we might be in the oppressive sultriness.

Steady progress was made by the path through the heather, from which occasional grouse and partridge rose noisily and whirred away to safety, while the whaups cried warningly by the burnside. The testing point of the ascent came when our way rose steeply for a mile or so through green bog and deep heather. Halts were frequent and necessary, but soon we reached a craggy outcrop where there is usually a hawk-trap, and after a swinging step along the ridge we made the summitcairn (2,555 feet), only to find that our horizon was more limited than from Keen the day before. Dimly we could trace the Water of Dye near the Charr, and the North Esk below Wirren Hill ; but the distant hills could only be seen by the eye of faith. Our respite over, we descended quickly to Aucheen, and had a fine swim in the dam there before taking a hearty al fresco dinner. Then on to Edzell we rode

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in great style, pausing at Gannochy Bridge to admire the awesome grandeur of the North Esk plunging its yeasty way through the deep gorge of old red sandstone, overarched with magnificent oak and beech and larch. We found a soft camping-ground near Edzell Castle, the romantic surroundings of which were raucous with the shouts of trippers and hideous with their litter. Why cannot a little tidiness be taken as part of the day's luggage? By 8 p.m., however, we had the place to ourselves ; so we viewed at our leisure and pleasure this magnificent relic of baronial days, the ancient seat of the once-powerful Lindsays, who lorded it splendidly along the Braes of Angus. The oldest part of the Castle buildings, the strong, square Stirling tower, is the best preserved portion of the ruin, the spiral staircase being still sound for a considerable height ; but much material of the later additions to the stronghold has found its way into the dykes of the neighbouring farm. We made a circuit of the old precincts of the castle, marking where traces of the deep moat yet remain in the fields close by, and visited the old churchyard where still stands the desecrated vault in which the old Lindsays were buried. Local traditions tell of many a deed of blood once perpetrated in these peaceful places. But thoughts of these did not keep us long awake, once our heads were pillowed.

IN GLEN CLOVA. A hazy Monday morning saw us in Edzell village by 9 a.m., but our arrival in Brechin was delayed by puncture trouble, soon ended. The day brightened as we rode gaily on to Tannadice, and a slight breeze relieved the sultry heaviness of the week-end. From here our way led into the hills again

by Cortachy Castle and Dykehead to Glen Clova and the banks of the South Esk. We dined at a wayside farm below the watch-tower of the Airlie Memorial, and then pushed onwards into the narrowing glen to Milton of Clova, where we halted to execute some more cycle repairs. By 5.30 we had completed the rest of our day's run to Braedownie farmhouse, where an old camping site was re-occupied near the junction of the South Esk and the White Water from Glen Doll, down which was blowing a gusty wind and an occasional shower. The day's fatigue was soon forgotten in such magnificent surroundings, but we scarcely felt equal to the task of scaling any of the steep, craggy hill faces that rose on every hand. That pleasure we were reserving for the morrow.

But such a morrow never came ; for by 8.30 on Tuesday morning a driving smirr settled down upon the glen, blotting out everything and bringing to a standstill the works of man and beast—and bicycle. We passed the forenoon in the barn, where our games were watched and shared in by some

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children visitors at the farm. Presently the farmer himself appeared, attracted by a rumour that some conjuring tricks with cards were on view, and an impromptu show was given for his benefit. And still the rain " shooshed " on the barn roof and swept across the yard, leaving us restive under the enforced delay. We had just decided to have dinner, when our friend the farmer appeared across the yard, staggering under the burden of a tray laden with a huge basin of Scotch broth and other plates of sundries. What a treat it was, too, in our despondent state ! Regrets for our lost walk by Jock's Road, Loch Esk, and Bachnagairn vanished before such steaming fragrance, and our somewhat clammy toes were soon tingling as from a ten-mile tramp. Having supplemented this bounteous course with a toothsome dessert, we passed a pleasant afternoon, ever hoping for the clearance, which did ultimately come, but too late for us to move. By 5 p.m. the hills shook themselves clear of the mists, and a warm wind from the south dried the roads sufficiently for us to venture as far as the Capel Mounth path and Glen Doll Lodge, a pleasant appetiser for tea. The crowning joy of the day, however, came when we received an invitation into the spacious farm kitchen, where, by special request, the conjurer of the company gave a repeat performance to a crowded house.

Loud were the roars of laughter, and rounded were the amazed eyes, as cards appeared and disappeared among the low rafters and the pendent hams—a happy topic of conversation as we retired for the night to the barn. And glad we were to accept its shelter ; for our camping site of the night before was now a tiny islet between two raging streams. Not even a rat alarm sufficed to keep us awake for long.

INTO GLENISLA. Next morning broke fresh and clear. By 8.30 we were saying good-byes to our kindly host and his household, and off we set for Kirriemuir, where we visited " The Window in Thrums " and replenished our empty larder. With a stiff breeze in our faces we took the Lintrathen road at 11.30, and were glad to stop for dinner at a roadside smiddy some twelve miles out. Refreshed and rested, we continued our way into Glen Isla as far as Forter Castle, where we secured an old camping site among the beeches by the Bennie Burn.

Before tea we bathed in the Isla below the bridge, while the long-hidden sun broke through the clouds and spread a warm glow over the glen. Time slipped idly by, and anon we were asleep ; so soft and restful was the turf that only one or two heard anything of the hoofbeats and snorting of the horses that nosed inquisitively round our tent in the wee sma"oors.

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voluntarily in the burn while performing his ablutions, and had to hang out signals of distress on the neighbouring trees ; the major tragedy happened to our porridge pan, in which the oatmeal had been " steepin' " overnight. Our equine visitors of the night-time had nosed it out, consumed the contents, and then spurned the pan with their hoofs, adding injury to insult. The loss was soon repaired, however, and breakfast gained some zest from the mischance. By 8.15 we had all gear packed and ready for lifting when we returned from our forenoon's climbing expedition further up the glen.

MONEGA AND GLAS MAOL. Mist and cloud were low on the brows of the hills ahead as we cycled to Tulchan Lodge. After exchanging compliments with the " gamie " there, off we trudged beside the dwindling Isla with eyes lifted to the clouded ridge of the Monega Hill and the grim-looking crags of the Caderg. Striking to the left by the Glas Burn, we followed the zig-zag path on to the long shoulder of the hill. Coats had to be donned to cope with an icy shower that slanted across the ridge before a chill blast. With steady steps we came towards the summit (2,917 feet), but just short of it we startled deer. The alarm was raised, and a great herd, which had been sheltering on the lee side of the top, streamed off in Indian file up the wind, a leaping procession well over 200 in number. From this point the old whisky-smugglers' path led us N.W. towards Glas Maol and Glen Clunie. On our left shoulder the sunlight broke through to gleam upon the sleek, schisty precipices of Craig Leacach, all seared and scarred by the scraping of Scotland's last glaciers. Dizzily we stood above the great recess of Canlochan Glen, pent in by steep slopes on three sides, and scantily covered with pasture ; the floor of the glen far below was dotted with clumps of fir and larch, and on the far side the ragged scaurs of Caderg made a grim rampart for this secret sanctuary of the red deer. As we left the path to climb on to the rounded summit of Glas Maol (3,502 feet), we started a fine red fox, which scurried nimbly down the back wall of Canlochan till it was lost to sight in some grassy hollow. Our view from the summit was, like a famous egg, good in parts ; north-east the horizon was etched by the long line of Lochnagar, Keen, and Battock, which seemed from here to run easily one into the other ; nearer at hand were the many peaks that rise around the White Mounth plateau, and we could trace the hollows of the glens and lochs that lie buried in their midst. To the south and west, however, only occasional glimpses did we have of many-hilled Perthshire, and there was just a flash and no more of the snows still lying in the corries of Ben Macdhui. So after a short rest we dipped once more to the path level and retraced our steps at a swinging

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pace, which soon brought us to Tulchan Lodge, nestling below in its snug circlet of trees. By 12.30 we were at Forter again, ready for a dinner, which was reinforced by a copious draught of butter-milk ; and when we did " cloy the hungry edge of appetite," it was with no " bare imagination of a feast."

FROM GLEN TO GLEN. Our day's work was far from over. At 2 p.m. we took the road past the ruined Forter Castle, one of several claimants to be the real " Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie," and breasted the rise over the shoulder of Mount Blair. It required some careful going to pick the best of a stony way, but we arrived in Glen Shee at Lair, through the fragrant woods of Cray, with no untoward incident. What a change has come over this road now, once the terror of motorist and cyclist ! It was a pleasant run to the Spital, and aided by a goodish breeze we made a light enough task of the ascent by the Devil's Elbow, and nothing at all of the long run down Glen Clunie to Braemar, near which we were met by two School chums who had kindly pre-arranged a site for our tent. We were soon trig and comfortable, looking eastwards over the Clunie Burn to Craig Choinnich; and again we needed no rocking or lullaby.

Our next day's plan had been to cycle to Derry Lodge and ascend Ben Macdhui, but we retired to rest happy in the knowledge that the first part of the plan was cancelled, for a Deus in Machina had volunteered to take us there in his Austin 20, and three others were to join our number, being similarly transported. No wonder, therefore, we were willing risers on the Friday morning, which was fine and sunny, though clouds were gathering on the hills to north and east as we set out for Derry Lodge. Arriving there at 9.20, we at once took the path up Glen Derry, and stepping out briskly rounded the mass of Derry Cairngorm by 10.20. Corrie Etchachan was taken in one spell, and as we rested at the top a thin rain began to fall. Undaunted we carried on, and presently were crossing the remnants of last winter's snows before taking shelter at 12.35 from driving rain, mist, and sleet in the O.S. hut below the summit. Lunch kept us busy till one o'clock, when we finished the journey to the cairn (4,296 feet) with the mists still driving past us from the S.W. Again our view was disappointing; only scant glimpses of the country towards Aviemore and N.E. by Cairngorm and Ben Bynack repaid us for our climb. As we descended by the boulderstrewn plateau, however, the mists cleared from Cairn Toul and Braeriach, and showed us these magnificent hills in all their stark grandeur, towering loftily from the Lang Ghru below. By 3.15 most of us stripped to bathe in the cold pools of the Lui Beg not far from Derry Lodge. As we neared our rendezvous again we were hailed by a kent face—Miss Edith

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Davidson of the Infant Department, enjoying a health-giving glimpse of the high hills as part of her convalescence. By 6.30 we were once more at our tent door, in time to shelter from a heavy pelt, which continued during tea and most of the night ; but our canvas home was proof against the heaviest of rain. So we lay down to rest again, shutting our ears to the Old Boy's gloating description of a hot bath in the house hard by.

LOST ON LOCHNAGAR. Despite the steady downpour during the night, we had felt nothing of it inside the tent, and after partially packing we had breakfast under the flysheet. It was still drizzling, with mists low on tree and hill, as we left Braemar, wearing coats for the first time while cycling. At Balmoral we were glad to doff them ere taking the lonely hill road by the distillery to Glenmuick. Though conditions looked far from promising, we were all keen to complete our programme of hill-climbs by an ascent of Lochnagar. To this end we had dinner at Inchnabobart, where a courteous and hearty welcome greeted us, and by 1.30 reached the Hut. Parking our cycles amongst the trees, we took the well-trodden path round Conachcraig to the watershed and the Fox's Well. Here we entered the clouds, but the steep path up the Ladder was too unmistakable to stray from. Surmounting the crest, we cautiously approached the precipice edge to look down the Red Spout, in which the mists swirled and eddied with fearsome gloom, and then trouble arose ; for in returning to the path we overstepped it, and presently found ourselves lost, as the Irishman might say. Here was a state of things !

With faltering accents we began to talk of a night's wandering on the White Mounth. The sound of running water, however, gave us a clue to our position ; a glance at the O.S. map showed this must be the Glas Alit ; if we followed it to its source, a N.W. compass bearing should take us to the top.

And so it proved. Ere long the weathered cairn loomed at us 15 yards away through the mist ; we next steered our course to the Black Spout and the ghostly " frowning glories," and then completed the final step to the Cam Beag (3,786 feet), where we learned from the Indicator all the hills we should have seen, while scarcely able to see each other ! But we had reached our goal, and completed our bag of peaks. In the descent we thought we could trust our eyes to follow the line of little cairns ; so we did, but, as the compass later showed, it was a line leading us to Braemar ! The order was about turn, and this time we kept checking our progress by the friendly compass till at last we were brought to the Ladder again, at the foot of which we emerged from the clouds. If our climb had been viewless, it had at least shown us the value

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of the prismatic compass and a little common sense. Four hours was our time from The Hut to The Hut, and on returning to tea at Inchnabobart we found that, while we were groping about mistily amid the clouds, the glen folks had been drenched with rain. By 7.30 we were shopping in Ballater ; by eight we were encamped close to the Dee, just in time to have shelter from the heavy rain which had long been threatening ; and by 10.30 we were all sound asleep, heedless of the heavy tattoo on the flysheet overhead.

DONSIDE AND HOME. The Big Lad woke us betimes with a complaint of wet blanket ; seemingly, in the course of reclimbing Lochnagar in his dreams, he had rolled over the Black Spout on to the tent wall and pinned it to the drenched turf—hence the trouble.

The rest of us were dry as bones, but both person and property became pretty moist by the time we had breakfasted and packed for the road. At Cambus o' May we branched off by Burn o' Vat, hoping against hope that the break in the clouds would widen and let us see the sun. As we proceeded, we were cheered to watch the long slopes of Morven slowly but surely cast their misty mantle, and by the time we reached the Strathdon road the sun was blazing clear in skies of blue.

We had a roadside dinner at the head of Kildrummy Den, then continued our way to Lumsden, where we secured an ideal site and managed to dry out all our damp gear. Our last evening is memorable for the blaze of sunshine that lit it to the latest hour. We were up betimes on the morrow, and by 9 a.m. were making for Aberdeen against a stiffish breeze. In spite of this, however, we reached our several homes in good time to warn those responsible that a hungry man had arrived for lunch.

STOCKTAKING. It is seldom that an extensive cycle-camping tour such as this can be fulfilled actually as planned ; but with the exception of our being storm-stayed at Braedownie, we carried out all our programme. We cycled fully 280 miles, and our various hill-climbs involved about 50 miles of walking. Hospitality everywhere was ready and free, and we tried to behave as model campers should. Indeed, the Old Boy felt complimented later on to hear it said of our last site that you wouldn't know we had been there at all. After the first three days cycle trouble was next to none, in spite of the distinctly third-class roads we often followed. And lastly, our meals were on a simple, wholesome, and plentiful scale, which left everyone satisfied, and often crying for " an hour's compulsory rest" ; yet the food cost per head for the ten full days amounted to 14/-, surely not excessive for such a healthful, self-reliant tour amidst the Glens and Hills.

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Some Attractions of Australia.

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ALISTAIR M. HENDERSON (1912-21), B.Sc. (Agr.), in a letter to the. Secretary of the F.P. Club from Annandale, Sydney, Australia, written on 27th August, 1928, says :— " I have now been in Australia for over two years and, like most people who have been here for that period, I think it is as good a country as any young man could wish to settle in, and certainly very much better than any foreign country.

The people are just the same as one finds at home, and the same factors that go to success there will stand good here in a shorter time. " Any fellow contemplating coming out ought to consider well the advantages offered by the ' one class ' boats before thinking of travelling any other way. They have two distinct advantages over other boats. There is more freedom for exercise and recreation, and the people naturally are more varied and interesting than when they are divided into classes.

One soon meets interesting people, and the time passes quickly.

On our boat—the Esperance Bay—there were the usual crowd of globe-trotters, who had tried their luck at all sorts of ventures but who had not stuck long enough at any one of them to make a success of it. There were also clergymen, serving and ex-service officers, University graduates—in fact there was represented almost every profession or trade on the earth, not to mention miners under the earth. Such is the boat for a real discussion—there is somebody there to discuss anything you may wish to bring up. Most of the day is given over to athletics and recreation. National competitions are very keenly fought out, and I had the honour of coaching a brawny team of Scots Tug-of-War men, who carried everything before them on our trip. " The ports of call are much looked forward to, and it is a fine thing to feel that although one is travelling half-way round the world, every port of call is British. " When we reached Fremantle I took a run up to Perth, and was particularly struck with the fine lay-out of this city.

Western Australia is moving ahead relatively faster than any of the other States, and any fellow contemplating going on to the land would do well to consider this State first. Most of the best land is taken up in the Eastern States, but this is not so in the west, although things will move quickly in that direction. The climate is a very healthy one, and settlers from the Old Country are made particularly welcome. Here I may venture to state that, in my opinion, it is better for two fellows to set out together, as companionship means a lot in the early days. I myself was very lucky to meet another Scottish 'Varsity graduate on the boat. We went into " digs "

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together for all the time he was a bachelor ; and I have had other very good friends who have given me a real welcome to Australia. " The cities here are pretty much the same as those at home. Sydney is of a greater size than Glasgow, and is very modern. Probably too much is being spent on city development and too little on country development in the Eastern States. Also it has, unfortunately, been the fault of our Governments in the past to borrow money which was not really to be devoted to development of the country, and consequently our credit does not stand as high in the world's markets as it might. No doubt that will rectify itself, and people will lay out their money more wisely. However, for those who wish to push on to another white man's country I would strongly recommend consideration of Australia and New Zealand. It is to be regretted that British people should emigrate to the United States—in which country they are foreigners—and overlook the Dominions. Here one gets a greater reward for a similar amount of energy that one does at home. There is no better training ground than Scotland, and we want out here a lot more men from the Universities, public schools, and good secondary schools. Naturally Australians give the preference to their own educational institutes, yet once a man from the Old Country has got his foot on the ladder, he gets the reward of his effort in a white man's country. " One may start in a totally new line of life out here. I myself am in a piano factory, looking after the production and sale of veneers. We cut veneers both for our own requirements and for selling to other furniture and panel manufacturers. Australian timbers show great beauty, and lend themselves particularly to the class of panel work where figured woods are sought after. There is a great variety of timbers to choose from, and for richness of colour and rare figure Australian timbers are unsurpassed. We cut our veneers on a slicer, usually to one-thirtieth of an inch, and others that have too much cross-grain we cut on a special veneer saw to one-twentieth of an inch. The veneers are then glued on to both sides of a cheaper wood. This centre runs at right angles to the direction of the grain of the face veneers, and in this way all tendency to split, twist, or warp is checked— a matter that is of special importance in our climate. This industry is in its infancy, and is one which is bound to grow throughout the world. Such a thing as veneers I had only read of up till two-and-a-half years ago, when I was thinking of going to Canada. " There is plenty of room for boys from the old School in many parts, and I feel sure no school has her grateful sons

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more widely scattered. All of us like to hear how the old School is faring in the spheres we were most interested in, and to read in the Magazine the personal notes about our old friends and about our former masters."

An Early School Magazine.

Mr. CHARLES WILLIAM SLEIGH (1874-79), M.A., of Strichen, has sent to the Secretary of the F.P. Club what he describes as " perhaps the first of the Grammar School Magazine."

This is a small octavo production, written on sheets of uniform size by the various contributors, in prose and verse, the sheets having later been collated and sewn together. Throughout there are numerous pen-and-ink sketches. Mr. Sleigh, it appears, was responsible for the outside cover, the grotesque lettering on which he says was copied from their writing books.

Two of the articles deal with what was evidently a burning question of the day, but the point of it is now a little difficult to discover. The element of humour was not wanting. For instance we read : " What is the difference between the Prince of Wales, a man with a bald head, an orphan, and a gorilla ?

—The Prince of Wales is an heir-apparent; a man with a bald head has no hair apparent; an orphan has ne'er a parent; and a gorilla is an airy parent." Again—" Miss Mina Week was married last Tuesday to Mr. Walter Dey. A wag wrote the following :— A Week is lost, a Day is gained, But Time should not complain— There'll soon be little Days enough To make the Week again.' "

" We had no funds to print the Magazine in those days," Mr. Sleigh writes, " and had to send The Fifth Class Paper, as we called it, round those who had subscribed." The names of these are given on page 50 of the issue, as follows :1 Couper, late Editor ; 2 Riddell, Reporter ; 3 Captain Baker of the G.S.C.C. ; 4 Sleigh, Hon. Sec. ; 5 Taylor, Mem. of Corn. ; 6 Urquhart, Mem. of Corn. ; 7 Middleton, Esq. ; 8 Smith, Esq. ; 9 Dalgarno, Esq. ; 10 Anderson, Esq. ; 11 Still, Esq. ; 12 Sutter, Esq. ; 13 Donald Gordon, Esq. ; 14 Reid, Esq. ; 15 Robertson, Esq. ; 16 De Faye, Frenchman [the latter designation has been deleted vigorously in ink], and finally John G. Adam.

A few notes about these members of the Fifth Class of '79 may be of interest :—" Couper " is John Couper, M.A., who studied at Clare College, Cambridge, and was drowned in 1886 while bathing at Aberdeen. " Riddell" is Dr. John Scott Riddell, C.B.E., M.V.O. " Captain Baker" became

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Sir John Baker, Medical Superintendent of the State Asylum at Broadmoor. " Taylor " is David Taylor, who was a doctor in Western Australia and died there in 1910. " Urquhart " is Robert H. Urquhart, who became an S.S.C. in Edinburgh, and subsequently went to Vancouver. "Middleton" is William R. C. Middleton, who was Medical Officer of Health at Singapore, and died in 1921. " Smith " is Gerald Spark Smith, later Smith-Spark, solicitor in London. " Dalgarno " is James J. Y. Dalgarno, the Aberdeen doctor, who died in 1910. " Anderson " is James Duncan Anderson, who became minister of Hoy, Graemsay, Orkney. "Still" is George Cardno Still, a son of Mr. Thomas Still, one of the Classical Masters of the School, best known as " Boxer," and is now a doctor at Twickenham, Middlesex. " Gordon " was Donald Gordon of Bovaglie, Crathie, who died a few months ago. " Reid " is Robert Henderson Reid, who studied medicine at Aberdeen University and died in 1900. " Robertson" is Cecil Robertson, who was a doctor in London, and died in 1902. " De Faye" is Alexander de Faye, who died at Geneva in 1891. John Gordon Adam died at Alford in 1886.

The concluding item of the Magazine is as follows :— " There will be no paper next week on account of the holidays, but it is hoped that, for the same reason, there will be a larger issue on the week after that, as everybody will have time to prepare their contributions."

If any other copies of The Fifth Class Paper or similar Class Magazines are still in existence, perhaps their owners will be willing to present them to the School, so that they may be preserved in the School Library beside the one which Mr. C. W. Sleigh has so kindly sent.

Dr. Melvin's Snuff-Box. The Rector recently reported to the Aberdeen Education Authority that he had received the following letter from Messrs. T. & J. Gillies, advocates :— " At the request of the family of the late Rev. James W. Legge, M.A., sometime Classical Master at the Grammar School, his Trustees have instructed us to deliver to you the Snuff Box which belonged to Dr. James Melvin, who was Rector of the Aberdeen Grammar School from 1826 to 1853. We understand that Dr. Melvin expressed a desire that it should be handed down to his successors, and in compliance with that desire we are to request you to be good enough to take official custody of it."

The gift has been placed in the School Museum.

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A Message to Former Pupils.

Nothing of special note has occurred this Term. The routine of work and play has proceeded on familiar lines, and the pages of the Magazine might fitly be reserved for brighter copy than I have to offer.

We returned in September to find the School, inwardly and outwardly, much as we left it, with the important exception of the playgrounds, where a comfortable surface of concrete now covers the mud flats of the back areas and a crazy pavement scheme offers dry access to our portals.

The painting of the Westfield Building was a further and much needed improvement.

Our enrolment repeated exactly the total of last year, a shrinkage in the Infants being balanced by an increase in the Middle School. Numbers in Classical VI make it impossible for any member of that Class to be lower than second. Dilution by Moderns for Latin has resulted in a respectable squad, but those of you who can recall things as they used to be may well deplore the tendency of the times.

One of the most interesting events of the Term was the opening of the School Boarding House. I feel sure the Magazine will deal with this topic elsewhere, so that I need not do more than emphasize the value of the Boarding House to the School and commend it to the hearty support of every member of the Club. The Boarders me comfortably, some would say luxuriously, housed. The House Master and the Matron have done everything in their power for the welfare of their charges, and the general tone of the House is admirable. Remember, please, that this is your scheme, and that its success depends in large measure on the support which you accord it.

Weather conditions have, on the whole, been favourable to games, and our XVs have not fallen below the standards which their predecessors have set them. It is true that the fine tussle with Daniel Stewart's was offset by the (Made at Anniesland against Glasgow High School, but in this latter fixture the demons of ill-luck were arrayed against us, and we hope to show to better advantage when the Glasgow boys come to Rubislaw.

The condition of Rubislaw Field has given occasion for some anxiety. The systematic removal of plantains last summer by gangs of weeders left a distinctly cleaner, though somewhat mottled and tender surface, and sickly patches are improving rapidly under special treatment.

There are two factors, however, which will always militate against healthy conditions—insufficient drainage of a naturally heavy soil, and the overworking of the pitches which a system of compulsory games entails.

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The organ for the Hall is not yet a fait accompli, but it is more nearly so than it was some months ago. The generous gift of £200 from Dr. Irvine Rowell will help materially to defray the cost of installation.

Donors of the Shanghai Clock and others will be interested to know that the Clock has kept perfect time, and that the hopes of irregularity cherished by the less punctual boys have not been fulfilled. The entanglement of an errant bee in its delicate mechanism was responsible for the clock's one and only stoppage.

All the School Societies are carried on with customary spirit. One of the most recent or recently revived Societies, the Dramatic, gave two public performances in October, which were highly appreciated by full houses. Training has commenced for a School Concert in the Spring, while the Orchestra improves steadily in numbers and in musicianship.

The personnel of the Staff has undergone little or no change.

By the time the next issue of the Magazine appears, Mr. Murison will have demitted the office which he has held with so much distinction to himself and to the School. As he will be with us to the end of this Term it would be unbecoming to say more at present or to anticipate the estimate of his service which will be given later. Mr. G. W. J. Farquharson will prove a worthy successor, and recent F.P.s who knew him as a teacher will heartily endorse the Education Authority's choice.

The incidence of Armistice Day on a Sunday did not permit of a commemoration by the School on the actual date, but we observed the solemn anniversary on the preceding Friday. The tribute of silence was impressive in the extreme.

May I reserve my last lines for the ventilation of a grievance ? I have often been asked why we have no School Song, and I can think of no other answer than carent quia vale sacro. I understand that one was composed many years ago, but it has not stood the acid test of time. A School Song helps more than anything else to focus sentiment and loyalty, and it is the obvious and fitting conclusion to such functions as a Club Dinner or a Prize Distribution. I feel sure that the Editor will welcome suggestions, and there should be little difficulty about a suitable musical setting.

And lastly, for the School's Christmas greetings to the scattered family of her sons. They are offered with special cordiality to those who are furthest afield. The most precious asset which the School possesses is the bond of affectionate regard which exists between past and present pupils, a bond which neither time nor distance can impair. May Christmas be fraught for you with much happiness, and may the old School have some share in your thoughts of home !

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The Persian Gulf.

By Lieut.-Colonel GEORGE WATERS, I.M.S. (retired).

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lieutenant, and admiral of Alexander the Great. It was at Sehwan, to the north of Karachi, that they had communication with one another, and thence, Nearchus afloat and Alexander on land, they severally proceeded westwards and again had contact at Bander Abbas, one of the most southerly points of modern Persia. Between Sehwan and Bander Abbas Alexander's force suffered more from the waterless stretches of Mekran and the territory northward than in the conquest of India, almost a third of the host being lost in that distance, the intense heat of the sun on men and animals, parched with thirst, being the cause of this great mortality.

With regard to Alexander, I would humbly say that he seems to have absorbed high military reputation which cannot properly be altogether ascribed to him. When we remember that he set out on this momentous expedition in earliest manhood, it is difficult to believe that it was his own military genius that attained so many achievements. And having regard to the story of the wanton destruction of the beautiful and stately palace of Persepolis, the suggestion seems to force itself upon us that the conquest of Asia was largely, if not mainly, due to the military genius of the commanders serving under him, who were trained by that accomplished soldier, his father, Philip of Macedon, and who directed the Macedonian forces in the East. This is an opinion I have long entertained, and Alexander the Great has thus never occupied the highest niche in my humble estimation, Julius Caesar being, in my opinion, much the greater soldier and by far the better man. " Caesar, the world's great master and his own,"

is surely an incomparably higher eulogy than " From the gates of the West to the Sun he bade And his bidding was done,"

as was sung of Alexander ; and these two pictures seem to me graphically correct. This much, perhaps, you will permit me to say in regard to an illustrious character who was about the first to make history in the region to which I am humbly endeavouring to draw your attention. Some centuries later the gentle Roman emperor Traj an sailed with a considerable force down the Persian Gulf, and thus made an addition to the classical history of these waters. I may here be permitted to recall a remark of the great historian Gibbon, touching Trajan and his successor on the Imperial throne. It was in substance and language, so far as I can remember, as follows : " The high-minded and virtuous emperors Trajan and Hadrian would blush to see a free Roman citizen discharge those duties of the bedchamber which in monarchical Britain the highest nobles of the land are emulous to perform."

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VERY LIKE A WHALE. Not far from Gwadar, on the Mekran coast, there occurred a remarkable circumstance. Some years before my personal acquaintance with the Persian Gulf began, the telegraph cable between Karachi and Muscat suddenly became impervious to the transmission of communication, and the IndoEuropean telegraph steamer Amberwitch, under the command of Captain Stiffe, was despatched to the site of the interruption, which was localized by electric indication. On the cable being fished up, it was found with a hitch of it around the tail of a dead whale. The whale thus tethered had been unable to come to the surface to breathe, and so, paradoxical as it may seem, the monster was drowned. It appeared that at the spot there was a deep and considerable crevasse in the bottom of the sea, from brink to brink of which the cable stretched. The whale must have found himself in this ravine of water, and feeling the cable touch his back, he made a swish with his tail to rid himself of the annoyance, and thus got hitched in deep water, and being unable to unhitch himself, died. I was informed by Mr. Walton, deputy director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department at Karachi, when he was on a tour of inspection in the Gulf, that he communicated an account of the above incident to The Times newspaper.

I believe I was a boy at school when this appeared, too much occupied with the pursuits of boyhood to think of reading The Times or other newspaper, and so Mr. Walton's account of this unique incident was altogether new to me. Whales are not rare in the Persian Gulf waters : one can hardly travel from one end of it to the other without seeing one or more on the voyage. I was told that one of large size used to swim right round the beautiful horse-shoe-shaped harbour of Muscat on the same day every week, and out again to sea, but I do not attest the correctness of this story. A reason for the presence of whales in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman may possibly be found in the fact that it teems with fish of many edible varieties, the seer-fish or sea salmon being specially plentiful. This fish boiled and eaten cold with mayonnaise forms a particularly palatable dish. Sardines in great shoals abound in the Persian Gulf. A tinning factory was started in Muscat with a view to supplying the European and American markets with this fish, but I am unable to say whether it proved a commercial success ; if it failed, it was not for want of the raw material. Whitebait, too, is plentiful in the Persian Gulf. At Bahrein, where there is a wonderful breed of small Arab milk cows, these are fed with dried whitebait when other and more suitable fodder is scarce. From this it would appear that there is abundance of this dainty dietary to be found in the sea around the Island of Bahrein. Another

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indication of the plenteous supply of fish in the Persian Gulf is the great number of water-snakes to be seen, especially in its more southerly stretches towards the Gulf of Oman.

The beautiful harbour of Muscat remains clearly outlined in my memory. It is crescentic in shape, with forts on either side, and the British Political Agency on the left front (looking shorewards), with the Palace of the Sultan in the mid-front and the town nestling behind and on either side of it. The British Political Agent at the time I was first on my way to Bushire was Major E. C. Ross, afterwards Colonel Sir Edward Ross.

Mr. Apothecary Rosario was a passenger on the ship on which I travelled up the Persian Gulf. He was assistant medical officer at the British Political Agency in Muscat, and being for long more or less in contact with His Highness the Sultan, he asked the two young naval officers and myself to accompany him to the Palace, and there, somewhat to our surprise, he suddenly introduced us to the audience chamber, and presented us to His Highness Syed Toorkee. We were all three at that time very young men, but the manners of the Sultan were those of a perfect gentleman, and he quickly put us at our ease by the gentle courtesy of his demeanour. He was a tall, well-built, handsome man of the purest type of Arab to look at, yet his mother was an Abyssinian. The face of His Highness sparkled with intelligence. He was the eldest of four distinguished brothers, yet had for some time a chequered existence, having to fight for his throne, and ultimately succeeded by a series of daring acts of cool intrepidity. On the occasion of his final success he approached unarmed a sentry at one of the forts. The man at first raised his gun to shoot, but recognizing Syed Toorkee, he instead saluted His Highness. Syed Toorkee said, " You know me, then ? " The sentry said, " Yes, you are Syed Toorkee," and the latter said, " Very well, remain at your post in my service." The man again saluted and continued his beat ! The other sentries behaved similarly, and Syed Toorkee and his following thus secured a bloodless entry into the capital of Oman, and quietly took possession of the throne. It may be gathered that the rank and file of those who were fighting against Syed Toorkee had come to perceive his fine qualities and to see that their best course was to fall in with him.

THE SLAVE TRADE. Muscat had for long harassed the Gulf and the Indian Ocean with well-armed and well-manned dhows or open warships, and had thus secured for Arabia and Persia a great number of slaves from Zanzibar and the neighbouring African coast. Indeed, the slave trade had lively vogue in the Persian Gulf long after it had been suppressed elsewhere. It was

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largely with a view to the stamping out of this inhuman traffic that the British Government kept a squadron of gunboats in the Persian Gulf. Still, despite all our efforts in this direction, the slave-traders managed to elude the vigilance of our naval patrol, and the nefarious business enjoyed more or less prosperity until the Government despatched a commission under the late Sir Bartle Frere, by whose political sagacity and address the great desideratum was achieved, the slave traffic which survived being reduced to a minimum. Sir Bartle Frere enlisted the co-operation of the Sultan of Muscat on the Arabian side, and the Sultan of Zanzibar on the other. Syed Toorkee's younger brother, Syed Burgash, was Sultan of Zanzibar, nominally as the feudatory of his elder -brother in Muscat, in token of which he was supposed to pay his suzerain in Muscat an annual sum as tribute. Of this responsibility the British Government altogether relieved the Sultan of Zanzibar, and at the same time subsidized the Sultan of Muscat, a much better arrangement for the latter, he being sure of the subsidy but not of the tribute from his younger and practically independent though nominally subordinate brother. The slave trade was doubtless attended with much inhumanity in the capture and sea-transport of the slaves ; but having lived some few years in Persia, where every family of any importance possessed one or more of these people, I can testify that their treatment in that country was very far from unbearable. In the first place, a slave represented a considerable amount of money, and so it was found to be bad policy to treat him or her otherwise than kindly ; and secondly, the slave soon seemed to acquire in a Persian household a position of trust and confidence. A son or a daughter might prove unreasonable or otherwise disagreeable ; not so the slave, who became specially attached to the owner who behaved kindly towards him, and he thus made his master's interests his own. I have seen slave girls in Persia in expensive costumes and with ridiculously comical affectation of manner regard the ordinary Persian servant with contempt ! It would seem that this state of things is somewhat akin to the Irish labourer's feeling for the bricklayer for whom he fetched building material : he is credited with saying to a fresh arrival from the sister Isle, " Go back home and sell the pig and the furniture and bring Biddy over here, where I am getting three-and-sixpence a day for carrying brick and mortar up a ladder, and would you believe it, man, there's a poor divil at the top doing all the work for me ! " It certainly was the fact in my time, at all events, that only well-to-do Persians had the means to possess a slave or slaves, and the latter generally occupied a position not so much of servitude as of trust and confidence. But be it observed that I am not at all speaking in extenuation of the system of

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slavery, I am only trying to show the circumstances which rendered it impossible, or at anyrate difficult, for a Persian to see any hardship in what, from his point of view, was merely comfortable and by no means intolerable bondage.

In the Book of Genesis we read that Abraham complained to the Almighty of his childlessness, adding, evidently implying Eliezer of Damascus, " and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir." This surely means that a state of things existed in patriarchal times somewhat similar to that which is still extant in Persia, and, of course, also in Arabia, where it goes even further. Have I not said that His Highness Syed Toorkee, Sultan of Muscat, was the son of an Abyssinian woman ?

PUTTING THE WEIGHT !

I may here remark that the Sultanate of Oman, of which Muscat is the capital, is but a province of the territory comprised within the great peninsula of Arabia. And it is very remarkable that, despite the fact that that peninsula is largely composed of hot, inhospitable country, every breed of animal to be found in it is the finest of its kind : the horse, the camel, the cow, the deer, the goat, the dog, and the donkey are unequalled elsewhere in the world ; whilst the Arab himself, physically and intellectually, has no superior, if any equal, among the human species. I well remember the magnificent specimen of an Arab, not less than six feet four inches in height, with muscles as clean and prominent as those of a race horse, who, when I was crossing the Euphrates at Hit and the boat grounded on a shoal in the river, carried myself and my Gladstone bag on one arm, and, when he found himself sinking in the mud about five feet from the further bank, chucked me, bag and all, on to the classic ground of Mesopotamia to save me from a wetting !

To return to the Muscat harbour : it abounded with an infinite variety of marine life, in multiform and multi-coloured profusion. When there on duty with H.B.M.'s Resident in the Persian Gulf, I loved to swim about in its pellucid waters, and was thus enabled leisurely to observe its wonderful aggregation of living objects, in form and colour altogether foreign to my experience ; and the depth of from fifty to seventy feet served as a grand and magical transparency.

Before leaving Muscat I may mention a unique circumstance happening there when Colonel S. Miles was Political Agent.

He succeeded Sir Edward Ross when the latter became Resident in the Persian Gulf. Like his great friend and chief, Colonel Miles was a scholar in Arabic and Persian, and a French gentleman, a learned orientalist, became his guest at the Political Agency; neither, however, could speak the language of the other fluently, and so, mirabile dictu, the

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learned Frenchman and the accomplished Englishman enjoyed most friendly intercourse for days in Arabic !

The Resident had the political supervision of several Arab chiefs on the Persian Gulf littoral. They each received a small subsidy on condition of good behaviour, and a salute of from three to seven guns ; also presents of various sorts, a favourite form being a gold watch. These chiefs had inherited a firm conviction that no watch was worth having other than bore the name of Macabe, London. Now it appears that this firm had ceased to exist, and our Government was obliged to have recourse to the expedient of having the name " Macabe, London," engraved on the watches intended as presents for those we call treaty chiefs in the Persian Gulf. Government was obliged to have recourse to a procedure similar to this during Lord Napier of Magdala's conquest of Abyssinia. It would appear that the Abyssinians had for long been accustomed to Austro-Hungarian dollars bearing the effigy of the Empress Maria Theresa, and they would accept no other currency in payment of supplies ; so the British Government had to obtain the permission of the Emperor of Austria to the coining of currency of that pattern for use in the Abyssinian campaign.

Some of these small Arab treaty chiefs did not display that dignity with which we are accustomed to clothe the Arab gentleman. I have seen one of them on being presented with a Macabe gold watch make the request that another should be given to his son, and I am sorry to say that, if I remember rightly, the gentle Sir Edward Ross gratified this outrageous cupidity. I venture to say that his predecessor, Sir Lewis Pelly, would never have had such a request preferred to him ! Colonel Pelly had a very unlucky experience of Persian Gulf navigation, having been twice or three times wrecked in these waters, with the result that on board a gunboat he hardly ever went to bed at night, keeping up a nervous look-out altogether his own, and I am bound to add that he thus averted another disaster. Once, when we had just left the gunboat, and a salute of 13 guns in honour of the Resident was about to be fired, Sir Lewis Pelly exclaimed, with a look of horror, " that fool has not taken out the tomkin," and forthwith the tomkin described a curve over the boat and dropped into the sea beyond us. It was a mercy that H.B.M.'s Resident in the Persian Gulf or some of his suite did not thus become the victims of grotesque stupidity, for possibly you might not now be afflicted with this rambling essay on the waters of Persia and Oman !

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An Old Class Group.

The old class photograph which is reproduced in this issue of the Magazine is that of a class in the Preparatory Department of the School in the session 1880-81. The photograph has been furnished by Mr. Edmond Sinclair, who has also identified the individuals. The following are brief notes on those who appear in the group. The masters are Mr. Green and Mr. " Paddy " Duncan. Edmond Sinclair is a solicitor in Aberdeen. George T. Cran went to South Africa and became a schoolmaster in the Cape Province.

Samuel W. Mayer is a bank agent and solicitor in Keith.

John Elrick went to Canada in 1884 and engaged in the manufacture of combs in Toronto. James S. Edwards went to South Africa about 1900 and was subsequently a hotel-keeper in Natal. James M. Munro is head of the firm of Messrs.

Milne & Munro, bootmakers, Aberdeen. William F. Cornwall is a doctor at Towcester, Northants. Alexander G. Craighead became a tea-planter in Ceylon. George Haddon Bower is an advocate in Aberdeen. Robert S. Machray qualified as a lawyer, subsequently held a commission for a time in the Royal Artillery, and then went to Canada, serving in the War as a sergeant in the Canadian Field Artillery. Alexander Cromar is a dental surgeon in Aberdeen. Andrew Skeen is the member of the class who has become most famous : he is a Lieutenant-General, Chief of the General Staff, India ; K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.M.G. Robert L. Brander was formerly a doctor at Woburn Sands, Beds, and died in 1914. William Hector was a doctor at Tarland for many years and has now retired. Reuben Lee was an engineer and died as the result of an accident in 1888. Herbert S. Duncan entered the Indian Educational Service in 1894 and retired in January, 1926. William L. Alexander engaged in mining in South Africa, and died in Aberdeen in 1909.

James S. Walker is burgh engineer and surveyor at Wallasey, Cheshire. Daniel Peterkin is a partner in the Morton Salt Company, Chicago. Edward H. Jobberns is a commission agent in Hanley. Claud A. Barron entered the Indian Civil Service and is now Financial Commissioner (Development Branch) of the Punjab ; he is C.S.I., C.I.E., C.V.O.

School Art Club.

Although the Art Club had not a very successful season this year, the annual reproduction of sketches is as good as ever. Calendars and framed pictures are being prepared, as well as bound sketch-books, and it is sincerely hoped that the demand will exceed the supply.

A. M. HARDIE, Secretary.

Preparatory IV in 1880-81.

Back Row.—Mr. Green, Edmond Sinclair, G. T. Cran, S. W. Mayer, John Elrick, Jas. S. Edwards, Haa.ld Burmiston, Mr. Duncan Third Row.—Jas. M. Munro, W. F. Cornwall, M. Gall, A. G. Craighead, G. H. Bower, R. S. Machray, Alex. Cromar.

Second Rcw.—Andrew Skeen, R. L. Brander, Wm. Hector, — Grant, John Buckner, Reuben Lee, Herbert S. Duncan.

Front Rcw.—Wm. L. Alexander, James S. Walker, Daniel Peterkin, E. H. Jobberns, Claud A. Barron.

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SCH I; 13 -.1 " All beginnings are difficult " is an old saying and one with which we now heartily concur. For some time we had looked eagerly forward to seeing our first literary efforts in print.

But, when we sat down to begin, our enthusiasm vanished, our pen faltered, and our courage oozed away. It is, therefore, with much diffidence that we present these Notes to our, we hope, indulgent readers. * * * It is with deep regret that we learn of the impending resignation of Mr. Munson, who relinquishes his post on the • completion of the present term. For thirty-six years he has been a member of the School staff, and many former pupils, famous now throughout the world, learned from him the arts and graces of the writing of English. A brilliant scholar, a sympathetic teacher, and a very great gentleman, Mr. Munson takes with him the best wishes of the whole School for a long and happy retirement. We are glad to retain at least one link with him—each year he will deliver his customary lecture to the " Debater," of which Society he is the enthusiastic Honorary President ; and the members will look forward with, if possible, even keener anticipation to this much-appreciated annual event. * * * Such a loss as this appeared at first irreparable. The authorities were set the task of finding an English master who would be capable of maintaining the great traditions of the post, and they found an ideal successor in the person of Mr. George W. J. Farquharson, M.A., Ed.B. They could not have made a more popular choice, for Mr. Farquharson is a favourite with the whole School. The Debating Society knows him to be a clever and witty debater, and the " Dramatic " appreciates its Honorary Vice-President's untiring eforts on its behalf. We have great pleasure in congratulating Mr. Farquharson and wishing him every success in his appointment. * * * Two new members have been added this session to the School staff—to the French Department Monsieur Andre J. Richard (taking the place of Monsieur Georges Vedier), and to the Classics Department Mr. W. W. Dickie, M.A. The

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latter has already made himself extremely popular by the great interest he takes in the sports side of the School's activities. We take this opportunity of welcoming both to the " Grammar." * * * As Armistice Day fell on a Sunday this year, it seemed that we would not be able together to pay tribute in the Hall to our Dead. It was, however, decided to observe two minutes' silence on the preceding Friday, and after Morning Prayers we paid the solemn tribute to those commemorated on our own War Memorial. As a contrasting frame renders the colours of a picture more vivid, so the noise and bustle outside rendered our silence more impressive. Such an observance must keep the glorious sacrifice made by Former Pupils fresh in our minds, and spread a desire for World Peace throughout the School. * * * On Tuesday, 2nd October, the "Debater" and the "Dramatic" held their first joint meeting. The Rector, who was in the chair, introduced Mr. Esme Percy of the Macdona Players in a speech which the latter described as the greatest tribute he had heard paid by Education to the Stage. Mr. Percy then delivered a wonderful lecture on " The Art of Acting," in which he explained how to appreciate fully the Drama, and lamented the modern indifference to good or bad acting. On the motion of Mr. Farquharson, the speaker was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks. * * * At the beginning of the session the Literary and Debating Society held its Annual Business Meeting under the chairmanship of Mr. Murison. General business was discussed and office-bearers for the season were elected, Ernest R. Mitchell and G. F. Hamilton being appointed President and Secretary respectively. They have since then drawn up a most attractive syllabus, which is printed elsewhere in this Magazine. * * * The Masters' Debate was, as usual, a great success. Mr. Himsworth and Mr. Farquharson both gave entertaining and witty speeches, and it was only by a very small majority that the latter successfully championed the superiority of a holiday at home over a holiday on the Continent. * * * Three lectures have already been given, the first by Mr. Murison on " Fools," the second by the Right Rev. Bishop F. L. Deane, M.A., D.D., on " America," and the last by Captain C. M. Usher, O.B.E., on " Rugby Football." With such speakers and such subjects it is not necessary to say how interesting these lectures were and how greatly they were appreciated.

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On the evenings of Thursday, 25th, and Saturday, 27th October, the Dramatic Society produced two plays before crowded and appreciative audiences in the School Hall. The Junior Section on both nights gave splendid performances of Lady Gregory's Irish farce, "Spreading the News," and duplicate casts from the Senior Section proved themselves capable of interpreting Sheridan's master-comedy, "The Rivals." The greatest credit for these productions is due to the Honorary Vice-Presidents, Mr. Farquharson and Mr. Eddison, who acted as producers, with the assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Maclver. Throughout the winter the Society intends to run Reading and Writing Circles, and invites all interested in the Drama to join its ranks at once. * * * The School Orchestra is another flourishing Society, which increases its membership every year. At its business meeting J. S. Stephen and H. B. Duff were elected President and Vice-President respectively. Since then the Orchestra has fulfilled many engagements, playing at Beechgrove Church Café, at the School Plays, and at the Aberdeen Drama League's Concert in the Cowdray Hall. On 2nd November they gave their annual performance from the B.B.C. studio.

Their excellent rendering of the programme, which included selections from " Faust " and " William Tell," reflected the greatest credit both on the players themselves and on their enterprising conductor, Mr. J. Mackenzie Forbes, M.A. * * * In spite of intermittent showers the Athletic Sports in June attracted large attendances on both days. Although no records were broken, the athletics were of a very high standard, and J. S. Stephen is to be congratulated on carrying off the School Championship. Byron was successful in the closelycontested Inter-House Relay Race, in which some very fine running was seen. A new and very interesting feature of the Sports was a short but representative Gymnastic Display, arranged by Mr. Summers. * * * an excellent account of themselves in The Cricket XI gave all their last season's matches. Thanks to assiduous practice, to careful coaching by Mr. McGregor, and to a greatly extended fixture card, there has been an all-round improvement in the general standard of play. Those interested—and, indeed, who is not interested ?—will find the individual averages published in the Sports Section of this issue. * * * The Rugby team, whose enthusiasm can be gauged from the fact that they have been attending regularly at beforebreakfast practice at Rubislaw, have been playing well together under J. S. Stephen and W. G. Sloan, Captain and Vice-

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Captain respectively. They have already several excellent victories to their credit, and are hoping to avenge their Glasgow defeat when the " High " visits Rubislaw in March. We have much pleasure in congratulating W. G. Sloan, W. H. Stephen, and T. D. Harrow on gaining their caps so early in the season, and we wish the team the best of luck in the matches yet to be played. * * * An interesting ceremony was performed after prayers in Hall on Monday, 17th November. The Prefects for the year were presented with badges of office. These badges, designed

by Mr. Millar, are in silver and enamel, and bear a handsome representation of the School badge. The recipients were— W. G. Sloan (senior), Maurice Cramb, G. H. McCombie, D. D. Murison, J. S. Stephen, W. H. Stephen, and R. J. Thom. * * * Soon the School will be enjoying the ever-welcome Christmas holidays, provided, of course, that the " powers that be " withhold the results of the Exams. and our Report Cards until the resumption in January. In conclusion, we express the time-honoured wish that our readers may enjoy a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

School Rugby Football.

The prospects at the commencement of the season were not quite so bright as had been anticipated. Only two of last year's 1st XV backs returned to School, and of the 2nd XV backs, to whom we looked for this season's 1st XV, all save two had left School. As now constituted the 1st XV back division has two of last season's 1st XV, two of the 2nd, and three of the 3rd. Under these circumstances it cannot be expected that our backs are up to the standard of last year, but at the same time the newcomers have come on so well that the backs as a whole are now rather above average.

It was our misfortune just before the stiffest matches of the term to lose the services through injury of our Captain and most experienced and effective centre three-quarter, J. S. Stephen, but we hope to have him back again for the December fixtures.

As in the case of the backs, so with the forwards ; several whose return to School had appeared certain did not after all come back. However, the forwards presented no problem ; we have an ample supply both for the 1st and 2nd XVs. Taken all over the 1st XV, being weaker behind the scrum but stronger forward, would appear to be just as good as last year.

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the 2nd, which is the best we have had for a long time, and has so far won its inter-school fixtures by big margins. Of course our main difficulty is, and must be, as always, the lack of fixtures for our XVs from the 3rd downwards. We have now so many players that, if opposition were available, eight School XVs could readily be run.

First XV Matches.

22nd September. School v. Gordonians 1st XV, at Rubislaw.— This was School's first big match, and although defeated by three tries to one try, they put up a very good show. Gordonians' three-quarters were faster than those of School, and used their speed to bring their side victory. School forwards were superior, however. School scored first through J. S. Stephen following a good run by the backs. The try was not converted. A lapse in the defence of the School backs gave Gordonians the opportunity to equalize. Half-time; School, 3 points; Gordonians, 3 points. Upon resumption, Gordonians scored another try through their right wing three-quarter, Cruickshank. School forwards, however, were playing extremely well, and play was very even until mid-way through the half, when Gordonians again scored through the same player's forceful tactics. School pressed very hard until full time, but did not again manage to cross their opponents' line.

Final score—School, 3 points ; Gordonians, 9 points. Best for School were J. S. Stephen, Nicol-Smith, and Grant.

29th September. School v. Aberdeen Bankers, at Rubislaw.— School defeated Bankers by 33 points to 3 points, the former being superior in every position, save perhaps at full back. It should be remembered,however, that the visitors were not able to field their strongest team. Nevertheless they put up a fairly good show until half-time. A feature of the game was the play of Robson at scrum half for School.

Throughout the first half Bankers' forwards played well in the tight and frequently obtained the ball. Weak handling by their threequarters rendered their work negligible. School three-quarters were combining and backing up well, and when half-time came School were leading by 11 points. In the second half School had it all their own way, and tries came in quick succession. Best for School were J. S. Stephen, Robson, and Sloan at back, and Nicol-Smith was the best of the forwards, who all played well.

6th October. Strathallan v. School, at Forgandenny.—On this, their first visit to Forgandenny, School were worthy winners by one placed goal and one penalty goal—8 points to nil. Most of the credit for the victory must be given to the School forwards, who were much faster in the loose than the Strathallan pack, and at the same time held their own in the tight. Behind the scrum Strathallan were beaten save at scrum half and full back. Playing with the wind, School at once attacked, and a certain score was missed when Keenan was not up for the final pass of a good run by the backs. Shortly afterwards, following a forward rush, Nicol-Smith appeared to score between the posts but was recalled. The School's persistent pressure was not to be denied, however, success coming when Sloan cut through cleverly and passed to J. S. Stephen for the latter to run in and score a try, which W. H. Stephen converted. From the kick-off Strathallan had a brief spell of attacking, but School forwards soon cleared the danger, and from a free kick between the twenty-five and centre lines, Sommerville increased the School's lead by kicking a good goal. Half-time scores—Strathallan, nil ; School, 8 points. In the second half, aided by the wind, Strathallan had more of the game, but owing to lack of pace among their threequarters, never looked like scoring. Time and again the Strathallan

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full back, who played brilliantly throughout, saved his side when School seemed sure to add to their lead. Best for School were J. S. Stephen, Sloan and Cruickshank at back, and Nicol-Smith and Harrow among the forwards.

13th October. School v. Aberdeen 'Varsity 1st XV, at Rubislaw.— School were defeated by 32 points to nil, but the game was not so onesided as the score suggests, School being only 8 points down at halftime, although playing against a stiff breeze. 'Varsity's success was due to their ability to keep the ball among their forwards, who were much heavier than School's. These tactics upset the School backs' defence. In the first half play was more or less even, and it is to the School forwards that the credit should go for this. Sheer weight carried the 'Varsity over for the two tries they obtained in this half, one of which was converted. On resumption it was apparent that the School forwards were feeling the effects of the gruelling first half, and as the game progressed the 'Varsity forwards carried everything before them.

For School, Nicol-Smith, W. H. Stephen, and G. A. Rowton were outstanding in the forwards, while J. S. Stephen was the pick of the School backs.

20th October. School v. Glenalmond, at Rubislaw.—Under fairly good weather conditions School deservedly beat Glenalmond by 2 goals 2 tries (16 points), to 1 goal (5 points). In this game the School backs put up the best display since the commencement of the season. At the end of the first eight minutes' play School were leading by 8 points, tries being scored by Gray and Cruickshank, and the latter's converted by W. H. Stephen. Glenalmond, however, by a series of successful kicks to touch, gained a great deal of ground, but the defence of the School backs was faultless. Shortly before half-time W. H. Stephen scored the best try of the match as a result of intelligent backing-up. Duncan got away and, when tackled, threw a very long and accurate pass which the former took in his stride to score between the posts, he himself converting. Following this a visiting forward ran from his own twentyfive line to score a good try, which was converted. Half-time scores— School, 13 points ; Glenalmond, 5 points. Play in the second half was fairly even, although behind the scrum School were still superior.

Mid way through the half Cruickshank increased School's lead by a very good try, but the kick failed. All the backs played well for School, and of the forwards, Nicol-Smith, Grant, and Harrow were the best.

27th October. School v. Aberdeen University 2nd XV, at Rubislaw.

—This game, spoilt by off-side tactics, was the poorest seen at Rubislaw up to date. School were worthy winners by 1 goal 3 tries (14 points), to 1 try (3 points). Behind the scrum School were vastly superior, whilst the School forwards held their own both in the loose and the tight. As in the previous game, School scored in the opening minutes through Gray, who went over at the corner. Having failed to convert, School kept going very hard and Duncan added to School's score.

'Varsity, by forward rushes, gained the School twenty-five and, following a line-out, scored at the corner. Shortly afterwards, J. S. Stephen was injured just as he was about to score, and had to be assisted off.

Grant came back to three-quarter and scored a very good try, after " selling the dummy " several times. The kick was successful. Halftime scores—School, 11 points ; 'Varsity, 3 points. Even in the second half, although playing with the wind, 'Varsity never looked like scoring, and just before time Cruickshank scored a good try which was not converted.

3rd November. Daniel Stewart's College v. School, at Rubislaw.— School, unbeaten by any other school team for nineteen months, were forced to acknowledge defeat at the hands of Stewart's College by 3 tries (9 points) to 1 dropped goal (4 points). As the score suggests,

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play was on fairly even lines, although the visiting forwards were indubitably superior. Behind the scrum there was not much in it, the School being better served at half-back and the College at three-quarter.

From the kick-off School attacked, and a clever forward rush resulted in a scrum in front of Stewart's line. School obtained the ball and W. G. Sloan dropped a goal, thus putting School on the lead. Stewart's then came away very strongly, and their efforts were rewarded when they scored, following a characteristic forward rush. Having failed to convert, Stewart's set a tremendous pace, and, shortly before halftime scored a very good try. Half-time scores—School, 4 points ; Stewart's, 6 points. Play in the second half was even. The School forwards were holding the opposing forwards better, but were feeling the lack of the attacking abilities of J. S. Stephen at inside three.

Stewart's again scored, following a scrum on School's goal line, but play was transferred to the other half by a clever piece of dribbling by Harrow, and School came within an ace of scoring. Towards the close of the game, Stewart's were hard put to it to prevent School's scoring, the latter going very strongly right to the final whistle.

Stewart's gave an exhibition of forward play that was really inspiring, and School forwards did well to hold them as they did. For School, Harrow was the pick of the forwards, and Gray, at right wing threequarter, played a very good game in defence. Team :—R. F. Greig ; J. H. Gray, H. B. Grant, J. W. B. Cruickshank, A. S. Duncan ; W. G. Sloan, T. F. Robson ; A. Nicol-Smith, A. A. N. Bain, W. H. Stephen, T. D. Harrow, G. S. Sommerville, G. A. Rowton, F. G. Dewar, A. J. Adams.

10th November. Glasgow High School v. School, at Old Anniesland.

—Amid heavy showers of rain School were thoroughly beaten by 42 points to nil. The game was very one-sided, save in the first ten minutes.

School forwards never played up to form throughout the game, and were evidently missing their leader, Nicol-Smith, who was deputising for J. S. Stephen at inside three-quarter, and owing to the weather conditions and lack of confidence, Greig, at full back, was very shaky in defence. School played with a fairly strong wind behind them and kept their opponents in their own half for a short period after commencement. School were heeling very slowly, however, and the three-quarters never got going. By intelligent use of their feet, High School gained School's twenty-five line and scored, following a good try by their backs. They continued to adopt these tactics, and owing to School's failure to do likewise, obtained a second try, which Greig should have been able to prevent. A minute afterwards they again scored in precisely the same manner. School were all at sixes and sevens now, the forwards unable to back the ball, and the backs very shaky in defence. Halftime came without School's crossing their opponents' line. School re-started better, but the High School pack were playing extremely well, and gave their backs glorious chances, which the latter took successfully. School had lost heart a bit, but the transferring of NicolSmith to the forwards and Grant to the three-quarters did much to restore confidence. However, School only once looked like scoring, and that was when they were awarded a penalty kick from a fairly easy position. The kick failed, but there was an opportunity for scoring on the blind side. This, also, was not taken advantage of. High School continued to score with monotonous regularity.

Second XV Matches.

6th October. 2nd School v. 2nd Strathallan, at Rubislaw.— Strathallan won the toss and decided to play up-hill and against the sun.

School started in great style, and within the first five minutes were six points up, Slessor scoring practically from the kick off. After that

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things were more even, but the home backs made better use of the ball when they got it. At half-time School were leading, 12-3. In the second half Strathallan's play improved greatly, and at one time they were only three points behind. Their forwards were always good in the loose, but never once got the ball back after half-time. The defence of both sets of backs was poor, and School's place-kicking, even allowing for a greasy ball, was atrocious. The final score was School, 6 tries, 1 penalty goal (24 points) ; Strathallan, 2 goals, 2 tries (16 points).

The scorers for School were Slessor (2), B. Smith (2), Cooper (2), Gray (1)• 27th October. 2nd School v. 3rd 'Varsity.—The School team played well together right from the start and showed a decided improvement in form. The only weakness was the defence of the backs and the placekicking. MacGregor scored first, and soon after Slessor and Boyd.

None of the tries was converted. In the second half play became rather scrappy. Slessor dummied past four 'Varsity men and scored an unconverted try under the posts. Final score—School, 4 tries (12 points) ; 3rd 'Varsity, nil. The weakness of School's kicking was very apparent in this game. Out of the 19 tries scored so far, only one has been converted ; or, in other words, 36 points have been lost.

3rd November. 2nd School v. 2nd Gordonians, at Seafield.— School started well and were continually pressing the Gordonians back to their own goal-line. The forwards did more than their own share against a much heavier pack. After three free kicks at goal had been missed, School opened the scoring with a penalty goal, converted by E. W. M. Watt. At half-time Gordonians were leading 5-3. In the second half the pace slowed, and the School forwards began to tire.

Gordonians ran through whenever they liked. Cooper, however, broke away on his own 25-line and scored a great try. Final score2nd School, 6 points ; 2nd Gordonians, 25 points.

Third XV Matches.

20th October. 3rd School v. 2nd Gordon's College, at Rubislaw.— School kicked off against a strong wind. School attacked vigorously and a good passing movement resulted in Halliday's scoring a try in the corner. The kick failed. Immediately Gordon's retaliated and scored an unconverted try. School were distinctly the better side, and tries were added by Bisset and Mayor, which were converted by Mayor and Anderson respectively. School would have gone further ahead if Halliday had not fumbled on two occasions. Half-time scores- School, 13 points ; Gordon's, 3 points. Gordon's, playing with the wind in the second half, kept School on the defensive, but the Grammar held out and added another unconverted try through Anderson. The forwards were very ragged but School were strong behind the scrum. Final scoresSchool, 16 points ; Gordon's, 3 points.

10th November. 3rd School v. 3rd Glenalmond, at Rubislaw.— The ground was very soft and this made handling difficult. It was clearly a forwards' game. Play was fast in spite of the weather conditions. Halliday opened School's account by scoring an unconverted try after about four minutes' play. Subsequently Glenalmond scored two unconverted tries. Half-time scores- School, 3 points; Glenalmond, 6 points. School came away with a burst upon resuming, but time and again the Glenalmond forwards transferred play to the other end by brilliant dribbling. Glenalmond scored another unconverted try. The School was now holding its own, and about ten minutes from the close a School back cut through the Glenalmond defence and, " selling the dummy," passed out to Anderson, who scored a try, which

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was unconverted. Nettled by this reverse, Glenalmond pressed hard and scored an unconverted try just on time. Final score—School, 6 points ; Glenalmond, 12 points.

Byron House.

A new session has begun, and judging from the results already obtained, we can truly say that the outlook is very bright. A House meeting was held at the beginning of the term, when the following officials were elected :—House Captain, W. H. Stephen ; Rugby Captain, W. H. Stephen ; Vice-Captain, M. B. Watson ; and Captain of Swimming, A. M. Gill.

In our 1st House XV at present there are four of the 1st School XV, eight of the 2nd and one of the 3rd, In the opening game of the season we were faced with a stiff opposition—Melvin House. Playing against sun, wind, and rain, we did extremely well to keep our line intact in the first half. In the second, however, we kept our opponents on the move by long touch kicking, and five minutes from full time A. J. Slessor broke through to score a good try, which was not converted. On the whole the team played well, but most credit must go to Slessor, Sommerville, and McGregor.

Final score—Byron, 1 try (3 points) ; Melvin, nil.

As our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th XVs also won, we are looking forward confidently to a successful season.

House Swimming is making rapid strides. At present we have many young swimmers, who will be able to take the place of those who have left School.

In conclusion, we urge every member to co-operate and to do his utmost to win the House Trophy for Byron House.

W. HAY STEPHEN, House Captain.

Dun House.

At the meeting held at the beginning of this session the following officials were appointed :—House Captain and Rugby Captain, A. A. N. Bain ; Swimming Captain, G. Bisset.

So far only one Inter-House Match has been played—against Keith House. The 1st team were beaten by 14 points to 3 points, but the 2nd team won by 6 points to nil, while the junior team won by 9 points to 8 points. The 1st team showed a lack of combination, but they were unfortunate to lose after the score was 3 points all at half-time, Duncan scoring for Dun House from a cross kick. This year Dun House have only three of its meinbers in the 1st School team, but there are several members in the 2nd XV. The 2nd House team showed great ability, though there is a lack of size and weight, and the junior team is quite up to the high standard of former years.

Although Dun House has not occupied a very high position in the past amongst House Swimming teams, it is hoped that an improvement will be effected this year. In order that this improvement may be ensured, all members of Dun House are requested to take every opportunity to practise.

A. A. N. BAIN.

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Keith House.

At a meeting held at the beginning of the session, Alastair NicolSmith was re-elected Captain of Rugby, and W. Smith was elected Captain of Swimming.

The Rugby prospects for this season are a great deal brighter than those of last year. On 24th October the 1st XV defeated Dun House by 13 points to 3 points. This, incidentally, is the first success Keith House 1st XV have had in three years, and it is to be hoped that they will not wait another three years before repeating the performance.

In the game against Dun House, Keith were worthy winners. They were without two of their regular three-quarters, McCombie and Halliday, whose places were taken by W. Smith and Hendry respectively. NicolSmith opened the scoring with an unconverted try, but Dun equalized through Duncan. Half-time arrived with the scores level. In the second half there was no doubting the superiority of the Keith forwards, and Nicol-Smith, by clever backing up, added a further two tries, one of which Garvie converted, Nicol-Smith bringing out full points with the other. " No-side " came with Keith pressing strongly.

The 2nd XV and the Juniors both lost, however : the former by 6 points to nil, and the latter by a single point.

No anxiety is felt about the playing of all three fifteens, and this year there seems to be a greater keenness and even a better House spirit than in the past few years. There can be no doubt that this change has been wrought largely by the fine example shown by the House Masters, to whom I should like to express the gratitude of Keith House for their unflagging interest.

W. G. SLOAN, House Captain.

Melvin House.

First of all we must congratulate ourselves on winning the House Trophy last year. R. D. Macpherson, our last year's Captain, must be especially thanked for his great individual efforts for the House.

We intend retaining the Trophy this year, but we have a more difficult task to take in hand than last year.

At the end of last term a great many of the House left School. Last summer Melvin House could place six cricket teams of considerable ability on the field, but this year can scarcely find two Rugby teams to keep up the reputation of the House. Although our numbers are few, our ability is considerable, because we have more 1st XV colours and more caps than any other House.

Only one House Rugby match has been played, and that was against Byron. We lost, but were not disgraced. It was a very close, hard game, as the score-1 try to nil—suggests, and I think both teams will agree that it was a very enjoyable game. The Byron forwards were extremely good and gave their backs plenty of opportunities, which were thrown away. The Melvin forwards, although much lighter and smaller than their opponents, fought very gamely. T. D. Harrow and Rowton were two very fine forwards, who worked with untiring energy throughout the game. The Melvin backs were strong, but unfortunately they very seldom saw the ball.

2nd and 3rd Melvin were both heavily defeated, but what of that ?

We are going to make a great recovery, and stand at the top of the league once again.

J. S. STEPHEN, House Captain.

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School Cricket.

The cricket season, as a whole, was a little disappointing. Of the fourteen matches played before the summer vacation, School won 6, drew 4, and lost 4. The 1st XI, although of more than average ability, did not seem to do itself justice. This was, perhaps, due to the fact that the XI was an exceptionally young although, it might be added, an exceptionally promising one. On its day it was capable of doing brilliant things.

The batting was especially good, every member of the XI being able to make runs, and to make them by good cricket.

There was, however, an unfortunate tendency to collapse at a crisis, largely due, no doubt, to the inexperience of the team. The bowling also was good, and met all the demands made upon it, whilst the fielding was invariably excellent. The high standard reached in the fielding made the team very attractive to watch. Three members of the team must be complimented in this connection—Booth, Cruickshank, and Begg.

There are very bright prospects for next season, for it is expected that eight of this year's XI will be available, and, with the added experience, should be able to go through with credit a greatly improved fixture list, containing the names of several well-known cricketing schools. The following are the chief averages :— Batting.

J. M. Robertson .

M. K. Duguid .

J. W. Cruickshank .

R. J. Thom . .

R. F. Greig . .

J. F. Begg . .

W. H. Stephen .

A. J. Slessor .

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Innings.

7 12 15 10 16 9 18 10

Times Not out.

2 0 0 3 1 1 2

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Runs.

191 143 174 71 150 62 100 53

Average.

38.2 11.9 11.7 10.1 10.0 7.7 6.2 5.9

Bowling.

J. Byth . .

J. M. Robertson .

R. J. Thom . .

W. H. Stephen .

M. K. Duguid .

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Overs. . 51 . 81 . 154.3 . 69 . 44.5

Maidens. Runs. Wkts. Average 18 103 16 6.3 21 169 26 6.5 38 329 45 7.3 4 198 19 10.4 9 106 10 10.6

The following Caps and Colours were presented during the season :— Caps—J. W. B. Cruickshank, M. K. Duguid ; Colours—I. F. Begg, A. W. Raffan, W. H. Stephen.

Matches Played.

28th April. School v. F.P.s, at Rubislaw. Scores—School, 61 ; F.P.s, 48.

5th May. School v. 'Varsity XI, at Rubislaw. Scores—School, 52 ; 'Varsity, 58.

9th May. School v. F.P.s, at Rubislaw. Scores- School, 92 for 5 wickets ; F.P.s, 60 for 5 wickets.

12th May. School v. R.M.H., at Hospital Grounds. Scores— School, 29 ; R.M.H., 90.

22nd May. School v. St. Clement's, at Rubislaw. Scores—St. Clements, 82 for 6 wickets ; School, 66 for 3 wickets.

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24th May. School v. Masters, at Rubislaw. Scores--School, 108 for 3 wickets ; Masters, 67.

26th May. School v. Aboyne, at Aboyne. Scores—School, 88 ; Aboyne, 23.

30th May. School v. Gordon's College, at Rubislaw. This match, played against our friendly rivals before a large crowd, proved very exciting, but at the finish Gordon's were in a hopeless position, being 56 runs behind with one wicket to fall. School won the toss and elected to bat on a soft pitch. Robertson and Duguid opened the batting and scored steadily. They were especially clever at securing short runs, but this, with the score at 45, proved their undoing, Robertson being run out. Two wickets then fell quickly, and Cruickshank and Greig came together. A long period of careful cricket followed the dismissal of the former. Stephen, however, brightened up the play when he came in by some good hitting, raising applause by driving Booth twice to the boundary in one over. With Stephen and Thom in the century was passed, and the innings finished a few' minutes later with the score at 102. The batting had been very good and consistent against steady bowling, especially on the part of the much-overworked bowlers, Booth and Wilson.

Of the Gordon's batting not much can be said. Only one player, Watson, showed any real ability ; he alone reached double figures against the excellent bowling of Thom and Robertson. The fielding of the School team in this game was exceedingly good. The catch by which Cruickshank dismissed Johnstone being especially brilliant.

The following are the scores :— GORDON'S COLLEGE. SCHOOL. . 30 J. Johnson c Cruickshank b J. M. Robertson, run out .

7 . . .

Thom M. K. Duguid c Thomson b .

0 J. Booth b Robertson . . 14 . .

Booth . . 25 .

1 W. Watson b Thom .

A. Raffan lbw, b Wilson .

5 .

J. W. Cruickshank b Wilson . 10 C. Ash b Robertson 2 . 15 J. Cruickshank b Robertson .

R. F. Greig b Wilson . . .

0 A. Brown b Thom .

2 A. Slessor lbw, b Booth .

2 .

1 G. Rhind b Thom I. F. Begg c Johnson b Brown 1 .

R. Thomson b Thom .

W. H. Stephen c Gove b Booth 16 .

0 .

4 S. Balneaves b Thom .

I. F. Booth b Wilson . .

0 .

5 H. Gove not out .

R. J. Thom c & b Wilson • .

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1 E. Wilson not out .

J. Fyfe not out . .

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FOR GORDON'S COLLEGE. W R M O 11 4 39 J. Booth . 26 5 48 6 E. Wilson . 27 7 1 2 A. Brown . 7 3 . 1 0 0 C. Ash 2 0 0 S. Balneaves 1

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FOR SCHOOL. M W O 5 3 J.M. Robertson15 5 6 R. J. Thom . 11 . 5 2 0 J. Fyfe 0 0 M. K. Duguid 1

R 20 13 6 1

Total (for 9 wkts.)

2nd June. School v. Banchory, at Rubislaw.—The School was narrowly defeated in this match. Winning the toss, School opened the innings promisingly on a hard wicket. With the score at 70 for 1 wicket there came a collapse, caused by good bowling on the part of Webster, so that the School was eventually all out for 82 runs. Thom and Stephen opened the School bowling, and soon had three wickets down for 10 runs. Strachan and Leahy, however, made a stand, bringing the score to 54. Then came a slump and School was within an ace of winning. The last wicket, however, settled the issue. Scores

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SCHOOL. M. K. Duguid c & b Webster. 31 9 .

A. W. Raffan b Webster J. W. Cruickshank c Michie b . 23 . .

Webster • 0 R. F. Greig b Webster 1 .

I. F. Begg b Webster .

W. H. Stephen lbw, b Webster 1 .

0 I. F. Booth b Lamb .

0 A. Slessor lbw, b Webster .

3 R. J. Thom c Michie b Lamb 0 .

G. W. Bowes not out .

0 J. Fyfe c Webster b Lamb . . . 14 .

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BANCHORY. J. Lamb c Begg b Stephen .

A. Rankin st Greig b Thom .

G. Webster lbw, b Stephen . . .

G. Strachan b Fyfe D. Leahy c Begg b Stephen . .

W. Hendry lbw, b Fyfe . .

J. Hird b Stephen J. Donald c Thom b Stephen . .

R. Reid b Thom . . .

A. Michie b Thom .

A. S. Deacon not out .

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82 FOR BANCHORY. W M O 0 7 . 15 D. Leahy 0 3 . 10 Strachan 0 0 . 3 Rankin 4 7 . 14 Webster 3 0 . 2.3 Lamb .

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FOR SCHOOL. MWR O 3 8 16 R. J. Thom 5 2 W. H. Stephen 13 0 2 M. K. Duguid 7 2 4 . 9 J. Fyfe

26 28 18 14

13th. June. School v. Gordon's College, at Seafield.—School won this match rather easily. Gordon's College won the toss and batted first on a soft wicket. They started badly, losing Johnstone at 4, but Watson and Booth increased the score slowly by watchful cricket.

At 46 Watson was bowled by Thom, and Ash joined Booth. The newcomer started to hit at once, but wickets fell quickly owing to good bowling by Robertson and Byth. The innings finished with the score at 92. School opened confidently, but at 16, Robertson was bowled.

Duguid and Cruickshank, however, proceeded to bat gloriously, taking the score to 57 before being parted. Afterwards Cruickshank and Greig batted brightly, and soon passed the required score. Scores :— SCHOOL. GORDON'S COLLEGE. 6 J. M. Robertson b Wilson .

4 J. Johnstone lbw. b Robertson . 12 M. K. Duguid lbw, b Booth 18 W. Watson b Thom .

J. Cruickshank c Cruickshank . . 39 J. Booth run out . 43 . . b Booth . . 13 .

C. Ash b Robertson 1 .

W. H. Stephen b Wilson J. Cruickshank lbw, b Robert2 .

• 7 I. F. Begg b Johnstone • . • son . 19 R. F. Greig b Wilson . .

1 A. Brown b Robertson .

1 A. W. Raffan lbw, b Booth .

G. Rhind c Slessor b Robert.

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8 I. F. Booth not out . son R. J. Thom, A. J. Slessor and 0 J. Yeoman b Robertson J. G. Byth did not bat.

0 R. Thomson b. Byth .

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E. Wilson not out 2 H. Gode lbw, b Byth .

6 . . .

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R 30 8 42 8

FOR GORDON'S COLLEGE. W R M O • 18 5 3 40 J. Booth 3 38 6 18 E. Wilson 10 0 0 A. Brown . 1 7 1 0 J. Johnstone 1

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21st June. School v. Huntly, at Huntly.—The School XI travelled to Huntly on a day of pouring rain. On their arrival there, however, the weather improved somewhat, so that, although the ground was still very soft, the captains decided that a late start was better than none at all. Huntly won the toss and batted first. They started disastrously against the bowling of Thom and Byth, three wickets falling for three runs. There was thereafter an improvement, however, and the score was brought to 61 before the innings closed. The School response was uneven, the only persons to make any prolonged resistance being Cruickshank and Greig. Scores :— HUNTLY. W. Murray c Greig b Thom .

J. Mitchell b Byth . .

W. Milton b Byth . .

G. Summers b Thom . .

F. Petrie c Booth b Stephen J. Robertson b Stephen .

J. Sherriffs c Slessor b Thom.

E. Rhind run out .

J. Inglis c Booth b Thom R. Lamont not out .

J. Richardson run out .

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SCHOOL. M. K. Duguid b Petrie .

0 A. Raffan c Murray b Summers 3 J.W.Cruickshank b Summers 23 W. H. Stephen lbw, b Summers 2 I. F. Begg c Robertson b Sherriffs . . .

3 R. F. Greig c Murray b Sherriffs. . . . 11 I. F. Booth lbw, b Sherriffs .

0 J. A. Brockie b Sherriffs .

I R. J. Thom lbw, b Summers.

3 A. J. Slessor lbw, b Sherriffs 1 J. G. Byth not out .

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61 FOR SCHOOL. O M W R. J. Thom 7 2 4 J. Byth 7 2 2 M. K. Duguid 3 0 0 W. H. Stephen 3 0 2

R 16 21 8 16

49 FOR HUNTLY. O M W G. Summers 7.3 3 4 F. Petrie .

2 0 1 J. Robertson 6 1 0 J. Sherriffs 4 1 5

R 8 18 14 7

23rd June. School v. Inverurie, at Rubislaw.—The School XI beat Inverurie in this match by 34 suns. School batted first on an easy-paced wicket, but did not do as well as it might have done. Scores :— SCHOOL. R. F. Greig b Rhind . .

A. W. Raffan lbw, b Shewan J. Cruickshank run out W. H. Stephen b Rhind • I. F. Begg b McGilp M. K. Duguid c Rhind b Shewan . . .

• I. F. Booth lbw, b McGilp .

A. J. Slessor run out .

R. J. Thom not out .

J. A. Brockie b McGilp I. Byth b Cruickshank. .

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FOR INVERURIE. O M W F. Shewan . 10 4 2 W. Rhind . 10 3 3 L.Cruickshank 6.4 1 2 F. McGilp . 6 2 3

R 16 23 15 16

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INVERURIE. L. Cruickshank b Byth • A. Baxter run out • W. Moir c Booth b Byth • E. Gray c Raffan b Thom • W. Rhind b Thom .

W. Crichton b Thom . .

C. Donald c Brockie b Thom F. McGilp not out . .

F. Shewan c Byth b Thom .

L. Stewart b Byth . .

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The School Dramatic Society.

During last session a meeting was held at which the following were appointed Office-Bearers :—President, Maurice Cramb ; Vice-President, William D. Swinney ; Secretary, John M. MacMillan ; Assistant Secretary, Gilbert F. Hamilton ; Assistant Treasurer, James S. Stephen ; Committee, J. S. Stephen, R. J. Thom, E. N. Gauld, A. B. Hay, C. G. Sang, and T. Forbes.

Soon after this meeting rehearsals began, and were resumed as soon as the present session opened. The plays—Sheridan's " The Rivals," and Lady Gregory's " Spreading the News "—were produced on the 25th and 27th of October, and were very successful.

On 4th October Mr. Esme Percy gave a very interesting lecture on " The Art of Acting " to an audience composed of members of the Dramatic and of the Literary and Debating Societies The Reading and Writing Circles will begin in the near future.

All those interested should turn up at the meetings.

The School Literary and Debating Society.

At present the membership is exactly the same as last year.

16th September.—At the Annual General Meeting, held on this date, with Mr. Murison in the chair, the following were appointed OfficeBearers:—President, E. R. Mitchell; Vice-Presidents, J. S. Stephen, R. J. Thom, M. Cramb ; Secretary and Treasurer, G. F. Hamilton ; Members of Committee, G. E. Swinney, W. D. Swinney, L. Findlay, W. H. Stephen.

4th October.—On this evening Mr. Esme Percy delivered a lecture to a joint meeting of the Debating Society and the Dramatic Society.

11th October.—On this night the annual Masters' Debate was held, the President in the chair. The subject was—" Is a Holiday on the Continent better than one in Britain ? " Mr. Himsworth opened for the affirmative with a clever paper. He began by admitting that he defended a lost cause, but despite that, his " defence " was an excellent " attack." The good old British climate, for one thing, did not escape unscathed. Mr. Farquharson's paper, for the negative, was worthy of the support it received. His witty and humorous sayings kept everybody chuckling, and his arguments convinced the majority.

He related some stories of his own experiences on the Continent. Mr. Stewart, who was also present, told some stories of his experiences of the Continent. He lent his support, however, to the affirmative. The speaking, when the debate was thrown open, was good. Messrs. Sloan, Swinney, and Stephen were prominent among the speakers. When a vote was taken it was seen that nearly 75 per cent. of the meeting were • in support of the negative side.

18th October.—At this meeting we listened to a delightful lecture on " Fools " by Mr. Murison. He began by saying that he had lectured on " Fools " before, but this lecture was an entirely new one. He talked of the synonyms for " fool," and quoted a few of them. These came to thirty words. Mr. Murison spoke of the " Feast of Fools " and of the famous 1st of April. Then he told stories of Court Jesters and the fools in fiction, and these had the audience howling with laughter.

Mr. Murison was given a very hearty vote of thanks at the conclusion of his lecture. The President was in the chair.

1st November.—On this date Bishop Deane delivered a lecture to the Society on " America." The President was in the chair. The Bishop talked to the Society in his usual racy manner. He told how

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it was he went to America, and then related some of his experiences there. Prominent among these was his visit to " Big Bill Thomson."

The turn-out to this lecture was fairly good, but ought to have been better.

8th November.—A debate was held on this date between J. S. Stephen and W. G. Sloan. The subject was whether the Debating Society justified its existence or not. Stephen, for the affirmative, delivered a clever and convincing paper. Sloan's reply was very fluent but not so convincing as Stephen's. After the debate was thrown open the speaking was poor. When a vote was taken it was seen that the affirmative bad won by 21 votes to 16.

Syllabus for Session 1928-29.

1928.

Oct. 2.—Lecture—" The Art of Acting," S. Esme Percy, Esq. „ 11.—Masters' Debate—G. W. J. Farquharson, Esq., M.A., and T. W. Himsworth, Esq., M.A. „ 18.—Lecture—" Fools," W. Munson, i Esq., M.A. Nov. 1.—Lecture—" America," Right Rev. F. L. Deane, M.A., D.D. „ 8.—Debate—" Does the Debating Society justify its existence ? " „ 15.—Lecture—Captain C. M. Usher, O.B.E. „ 22.—Debate— „ 29.—Lantern Lecture—" Kildrummy Castle," W. Douglas Simpson, Esq., M.A., D.Litt., F.S.A. (Scot.).

Dec. 6.—Debate— „ 13.—Lecture—G. Middleton, Esq., M.A. (Cantab), D.Litt. (Aber.).

20.—Sing-Song.

1929 Jan. 10.—Lecture—" A Travel Talk," C. Davidson, Esq., M.A. 17.—Debate25.-Inter-Debate with Girls' High School.

31.—Judicial Night.

Feb. 7.—Lecture—" Shakespeare," Very Rev. H. Erskine Hill, D.D. 14.—Lecture—Rev. J. M. Ballard, M.A. (Oxon.).

21.—Lantern Lecture—" Crystals and Crystallization," Professor A. Findlay, D.Sc., F.I.C. 28.—Organ Recital—G. Falconer, Esq., A.R.C.M., A.T.S.C. Mar. 7.—Master-Member Debate—C. Maclver, Esq., M.A. 14.—Lantern Lecture—C. McLeod, Esq., M.A., D.Sc. 21.—Debate27.—Musical Evening—J. Mackenzie Forbes, Esq., M.A. PI

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Scout Notes.

Our last notes were published just too soon to contain the results of the County Flag Competition, which takes place annually in June and rounds off the Spring Scouting season. The test for this earnestlycoveted distinction, competed for by all the city Troops, took a new form this year. A picked patrol from each Troop assembled at the Bridge of Dee, where their leaders received sealed orders, giving them the routes along which they were to " hike " and various tasks to be performed on the way : as here to stop and pitch a tent, there to cook a meal and eat it, and in another spot to dig for a letter containing further instructions—a searching test of map-reading, observation, path-finding, and the other scoutly arts and qualities. Meanwhile examining commissioners swooped about the country-side, pouncing on the unwary. The Flag was gained by the 9th Troop ; the 17th missed it by a mark and a half ; the 1st came third, and the 38th, fifth. After this nothing need be said about the efficiency and enthusiasm of the School Troops.

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On the 29th of June School broke up, and on the 30th the Troops were off to their Summer camps—the 1st to Huntly, the 9th to Pitfour, the 17th to Deecastle, and the 38th to Loch Kinnord. The weather during the first fortnight of July was far from perfect ; in fact, it was the worst in the memory of scout. Yet none of the boys was any the worse for it, nor did the camps appear any the less cheerful and active.

Luckily the worst of the weather was over in the first week, the second being quite tolerably summer-like.

The 38th occupied the well-known site on the north shore of Loch Kinnord. The tents were scattered about the shelving, sandy turf before a background of pine trees. There is no finer fresh water bathingplace in Scotland than Loch Kinnord, and through the kindness of Mr. Barclay Harvey, the laird, the Troop was allowed to fish and boat on the Loch. During camp nine of the Troop completed the " hike " for their " First-class Scout " badges, and First-class tests were also passed in cookery, distance-judging, swimming, first aid, and mapreading. On visitors' day some fifty parents and friends came to the camp, and the Troop was visited also by representatives from Main Headquarters. The older members of the Troop climbed Morven, and an excursion was made to Culblean ; visits were exchanged with the 17th, who were encamped on the other side of the River Dee at Deecastle.

Deecastle—the name of a farm, not a castle—is a new camping site— new at least to the School Troops—on the south side of the Dee a mile or so above Dinnet. The camping spot is a triangular piece of waste ground, standing high on the slope of a hill, remote from the highway.

From the camp a splendid view is obtained right over the valley, including Loch Kinnord, Loch Davan and the surrounding hills. At one corner of the triangle is an old mill dam containing six feet of clear water, as if it were put there on purpose for a swimming bath.

On this dam a boat was launched, made out of a piece of a ladder and two motor tubes.

The 9th Troop's camp was in the beautiful wooded grounds of Pitfour House, near Mintlaw, in an open space surrounded by thick fir trees. There were about forty in camp. The Troop's warmest thanks are due to Mr. William Porter and Messrs. James and John Bisset for their continuous interest and help all through the camp, for the free run of the grounds and woods, for leave to bathe in the artificial lake, and for the use of lorries. The Troop was fortunate in that Hon. S. M. Arthur Hutchison, who has been at Cambridge since he resigned the Scoutmastership of the Troop a year ago, was present for the whole fortnight.

The largest of the four camps was that of the 1st Troop, which contained fifty all told. This camp was unique in several ways. The Troop went further afield than any of the School Troops has ever gone before. They took train to Huntly, where Mr. John B. Summers, our Gymnastic Master, had obtained for them a site near Huntly Castle, in a huge meadow which they shared with much other livestock—horses, sheep, and cows with pilfering habits. The field lies on high ground above the confluence of the Rivers Deveron and Bogie, about a mile from the town, and commands a wide view all round about, the Deveron providing a convenient bathing-place.

Here the Troop was visited by a calamity. On Friday, the sixth day of camp, Scoutmaster McLeod and one of the younger scouts had to be packed off to Huntly Hospital suffering from scarlet fever, and two days later two other boys developed the disease. The County Medical Officer took charge, and the camp was placed in quarantine: the tent-mates of the unfortunate sufferers were isolated ; fresh victims were hourly expected to develop the rash. By the doctor's orders the Troop was kept in camp two days beyond the fortnight, and then, no more casualties occurring, was allowed to return home. All the cases, except that of the Scoutmaster himself, were only slight, and the afflicted

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scouts fully enjoyed their stay in Huntly Hospital. Nothing of this sort has ever occurred at any of the Troop camps before, and if the outbreak had occurred in School instead of in camp a much larger number than four out of fifty would certainly have been affected. There is no disinfectant like the open air. Naturally the Troop's camp activities were somewhat upset, but in the Scoutmaster's absence the Troop carried on under A. S. M. Ronald F. Skene, and classes were held in photography, bridge-making, and hut-building. One afternoon— before the outbreak of scarlet fever--the Troop visited Huntly Castle under the guidance of Dr. W. Douglas Simpson. On visitors' day— also before the great plague—over forty parents and friends arrived and were entertained to tea.

After the close of the regular summer camps, small parties of scouts held unofficial camps, "hikes," and cycle-tours, at various times throughout the holidays. The 9th Rovers hiked in the Braemar District, and six scouts of the 17th Troop spent a strenuous week in the Cairngorms. Sixteen members of the same Troop, under the leadership of Mr. Cecil A. G. Savidge, formerly their Scoutmaster, visited France, camping a few miles south of Paris. They spent a never-to-be-forgotten week visiting the sights of Paris and its environs, including Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Invalides, and Versailles. They dined every evening at an estaminet whose Madame and Monsieur, with that linguistic talent which appears to be innate in the Continental nations but which is so sadly lacking in the British, learnt before the week was over to understand Grammar School French. Each time, going and returning, a day was spent in London. The first time they visited the Mint, the second time the Zoo, where one of the party tried to drown himself by falling out of a skiff into the Regent Park pond.

On the week-end of the September Holiday the Troops held Friday to Monday camps, which finished the camping season for this year. In September, also, were held the Scouts' Sports. The 9th Troop carried off the Trophy just as they had carried off the County Flag. The 38th Troop took third place, and the 1st Troop fourth. The 9th Pack of Wolf Cubs also were victorious, the 1st Pack coming second.

The Troops are now carrying out their Winter programmes. Since the Friday meetings started five scouts of the 1st Troop have passed the First-class badge, and now a quarter of the Troop wear this decoration. The 38th, also, is concentrating on the First-class badge, and the patrols are training in Morse signalling and the weight-judging tests.

The 17th is having a course of lectures as well from various friends, and has paid a visit to the Electricity Works. The 1st has a syllabus of short talks by outside speakers once a fortnight, and classes are being conducted for the Fireman's and Airman's badges, and in raffia-work, tent-making, canoe-making, and woggle-making.

As S.M. McLeod is unable to attend the Friday night meetings this winter owing to imminent examinations, the 1st Troop is being managed We meanwhile by A.S.M.s Ronald F. Skene and W. Wilson Ross. regret to learn that the 1st Troop has lost its Quartermaster, A.S.M. Charles Skene, who is leaving for Honolulu. He has had a long and active period of service, having passed through every rank from Wolf Cub to A.S.M. He was one of the original members of the 1st Pack, and was the first cub to join the Troop from the Pack. He carries with him to the other side of the globe the best wishes of all who have been his comrades for so long. The 9th has suffered the loss of A.S.M. William Miller, who is also obliged to work late on Friday evenings. But he is still in Aberdeen and intends, when possible, to be of further service to the Scout Movement.

Because of these changes a number of promotions have been made.

In the 1st Troop, P.L. Alexander Macdonald has been appointed Quartermaster. Second W. D. Swinney and Scout G. E. Swinney have left the Troop to become A.C.M.s in the 1st Pack. Second John Watson, while still retaining his position in the Troop, has become A.C.M. of the

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38th Pack. The following have been promoted :—Instructor W. W. Ross to be A.S.M. ; Second Marshall Wetherley to be P.L. ; Scouts J. Smith and A. Cruickshank to be Seconds. A.S.M. R. F. Skene has joined the Headquarters Staff as Assistant Badge Secretary. In the 9th Troop the following P.L.s joined the Rovers in September:— A. Gray, I Miller, N. Miller, R. Milne. P.L. I. Miller has been promoted A.S.M. ; Seconds A. Christie, A. Duncan, and E. Lyall become P.L.s ; Scouts N. Clark, L. Helmrich, I. R. Pratt, and E. W. M. Watt become Seconds. In the 38th Troop the following promotions are reported :— P.L. Frank Harper to be A.S.M. ; Second Alan Fraser to be P.L. ; and Scouts Edgar Bright, George Burns, and Thomas Duncan to be Seconds.

In conclusion, a few words must be said about the Rover Patrol of the 9th Troop. In September the Rovers resumed under the leadership of Mr. William Donald, M.A., meeting every Saturday night at Rubislaw.

From October to March a syllabus of study in British Citizenship is being followed out with the aid of Sir Robert Baden-Powell's invaluable book, " Rovering to Success," and lectures on such subjects as " The British Constitution," " Parliamentary Procedure," "The County Council," " The Town Council," " British Legal Procedure," " Banking," and " The Income Tax." Three lectures are also to be given, each showing the point of view of one of the three great political parties. " Hat Nights " play a prominent part in the programme, and First-Aid is studied continuously throughout the winter.

We should like also to mention the good work being done by some old 9th Troopers. The 10th (Shuttle Lane) Troop has been taken over

by S.M. Daniel Walker. He has been in charge since S.M. George Cameron left for Germany some months ago. Mr. Cameron returned to this country in August and left in September to continue his studies in America. The value of the work which Mr. George Cameron has done and which Mr. Daniel Walker is doing is inestimable, reflecting credit on the 9th Troop, whose wholesome spirit is being spread among the boys of one of the least fortunate parts of the city.

The 17th Troop's Visit to Paris.

Cecil Savidge had proposed at a Court of Honour Meeting in April that the Troop should strike out a new line in camping by visiting the Continent in August under his charge, a proposal which met with unanimous approval, and the result was that, after a great deal of hard work on his part, fifteen Scouts boarded the London train on 20th August in great spirits, in anticipation of a new and pleasant experience.

On the way up to London periods of rest were intermingled with periods of eating, for ever-blessed parents had not forgotten that a Troop of Scouts travels on its stomach. After a visit to a Lyons teashop and a general look-round, we forgathered at the Mint, through which we were to be conducted. It was very interesting to see all the different processes through which an insignificant piece of copper passed before it became a mighty penny. It is not difficult to believe that even here we upheld Aberdonian instincts by making the horrible faux pas of pocketing samples which had been handed round merely for our inspection, not as mementos, but we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that the officials in the Mint will have good grounds on which to make fun of Aberdeen.

The afternoon was spent recuperating at Imperial Headquarters, but nevertheless it was a tired party that boarded the boat train in the evening for the second stage of our journey, which was uneventful.

The third stage was such that several bright spirits hoped and felt it would be their last, while others strode up and down the deck occasionally asking their less fortunate brethren (white-faced and hanging over the rail) if they were sick, and at the same time offering sympathy, which, however, failed to revive them or to stop the wind from blowing us about. But at long last we reached Dieppe (having crossed from

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Newhaven), feeling very subdued, and crept through the Customs and into the Paris train, where almost everyone went off to sleep, except in one carriage, where a well-known boxer kept assuring the occupants that when he got hold of (a British boxer), he would show him how to hit ; but somehow he eventually managed to stop his tongue from wagging, and his fellow-travellers gained peace and quiet.

Our awakening was rude, and few of us were interested in the fact that we had reached Paris and were being conducted towards food by kindly Anglo-French Scout Commissioners. The coffee was homologous with tar and the croissants tasteless, but nevertheless it was food and very welcome. We were next conducted by tube to DeufertRochereau, our starting point for all future visits to Paris, and there we boarded a suburban train for our ultimate goal—Palaiseau-Villebon, and once there we had a long walk to our camp in the grounds of a French school, an old castle. We found the site already occupied by a Troop from Bradford, and on selecting a neighbouring field we were soon turned off by a voluble Frenchman, who seemed to lose control of his tongue, and so we retraced our steps to our first site, pitched camp, and went to bed, no one being troubled with insomnia.

We awoke to find two pleasant surprises : one was our old friend, Mr. A. F. Hyslop, who was on holiday ; and the second was a promise of more food (yet again) by Cecil, who had not been idle while we were sleeping. After a wash we wended our way into the village to the estaminet, which was to be our dining room for the next week, and there partook of a real French omelette, and made our acquaintance with " vin blanc " and the French tongue. The dialogue was somewhat as follows :— Scout—" Je veux une verre de vin blanc s'il vous plait, monsieur."

(School French.)

Monsieur—" Vin blanc. Ah ! Oui." And the required glass is handed over.

Scout (haughtily)—" Combien, monsieur ? " Mons.—" Un quarante," Scout (in confusion)—" What's that ! I mean to say (more confusion) —Beg pardon—I mean to say (terriffic confusion)—Comment ? " Mons. (unperturbed)—" Un franc quarante."

At this point our bright French scholar, blushing furiously, bangs down a ten franc note and takes meekly whatever change is offered, dashes off, and has an impromptu lesson on French high finance, not forgetting in the meantime to sample the result of his first effort at the French language. And thus, with the buying of a few stores for the morrow from Madame, our first day in France was completed.

The next morning our week's programme began in earnest, when we took the train into Paris to meet Mr. Hyslop, who was to spend the last day of his holiday with us in the " Jardin de Tuileries," and after changing some money and having a general tour of the neighbourhood, we made our way to a " patisserie " for lunch. Our entrance caused quite a stir, the reason being two-fold : first, that the said shop had not been built to accommodate about twenty people, and secondly, that the waitresses were not accustomed to the sight of kilts, and kept crying " Oh ! la, ! la ! Les Ecossais," while they dashed across the street to procure another supply of chairs. The meal was very bright, the waitresses twice being reproved by the proprietrix for contributing to the general conversation. However, all good things come to an end, and we were soon making our way to Notre Dame, after promising to pay a return visit to the patisserie. At the Cathedral we were introduced into the French custom of having first, second, and third-class funerals. We climbed several hundred stairs to the top of one of the towers, and on looking down from the height agreed that the " hunchback was no mean gymnast. The general view was very good, and

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an excellent idea of the city was obtained. We now hurried home to have a " dook " before dinner, and although the stream was sluggish, the bathing was good, and feeling much refreshed externally, we hied away to the " Sabot Rouge," where Madame refreshed us internally.

The evening was spent waiting post cards and playing French billiards.

This was a typical day, except that we often took lunch with us, and on one occasion laden with bottles of " vin blanc," " yin rouge," and " cider " we scandalised the gendarmes by sitting on seats bordering the Rue de la Bois de Boulogne, and without ceremony partook of our mid-day meal to the sound of, for the most part, American tourists' cars. The afternoon was spent boating in the Bois de Boulogne.

Among the places visited during the week were the Louvre, where we saw the Venus of Milo and Discobile ; the Champs Elys€es, with the Arc de Triomphe at the end ; the Eiffel Tower, at the top of which we caused great amusement to tourists by trying to get something for nothing from a slot machine. One very interesting day was spent at Sevres in the pottery factory, which was reached after a pleasant trip down the Seine in a steamboat. In the factory we were given a demonstration on how different articles are made, and it is now very easily understood why this pottery is so expensive, some of the articles costing thousands of pounds.

A day was also spent at Versailles, and one can almost imagine the mob howling at the large iron gates of the palace while Louis sat enjoying himself at banquets, or hunted in his wonderful grounds, for there must be very few places that could compete with this for sheer splendour and magnificence.

All too soon, however, the last evening was reached, and it will be a long time before anyone forgets our parting dinner at the " Restaurant Auclair," where we tasted and became firm friends with frogs' legs, which everyone will assure you are absolutely perfect. Then we went to the " Cirque d' Hiver," after which we all boarded taxis and toured round that notorious den of iniquity, Montmartre, and so to DeufertRochereau and camp for the last time. The next day we struck camp and went to the village to say " Au revoir " to Monsieur and Madame, and should any of us pass that way again we will stop without hesitation at the " Sabot Rouge " and partake of a " vin blanc " with Monsieur and his wife for the sake of old times. Soon we were in Paris once more and then the boat train and the Channel. It was a sad party that stood on the deck of the boat taking a last look at the receding lights of France, and no doubt those lines drummed into us at School passed through several of our minds— Adieu, charmant pays de France," etc.

The return crossing was perfect—no wind, no clouds, no roll, nothing but a lovely full moon, and the party were, therefore, in perfect health on landing. The second last stage from Newhaven to London was soon covered, and again we stood in Victoria station looking forward to a day at the Zoo. After a look round the Zoo the party took to boats in the Regent's Park boating pond, where one member—he shall be nameless (although the story has been round the School by now)—thought he would try his luck in a skiff. The result was disastrous, for at the first pull of the oars the boat capsized and our jester went into the water head first.

The next scene is the bedraggled scout pushing his craft towards the shore, his kilt round his neck and his face a bright red, and so, in borrowed plumes, he made his way to the station. There we boarded the Aberdeen train, and in a matter of twelve hours arrived at the Joint Station, and after arranging a reunion meeting to look at photos and discuss certain incidents, the party broke up after as good a holiday as we shall, very probably, ever spend ; and all of us hope that in the near future Cecil Savidge will again be able to lead us on new adventures to explore another part of this small world,

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Club Consuls.

In November of last year WILLIAM PATERSON (1900-03) resigned his Consulship for Perak, as he is now to spend only one month in each year in the F.M.S. To fill the vacancy WILLIAM CLARK WARRACK (1898-1909) has been appointed.

He has been in the F.M.S. since 1914.

ALAN REID (1911-14), who was for six years with the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China at Kobe, and was the Club Consul for Japan, is now stationed (still with the Chartered Bank) at Hongkong, and has been appointed Consul there. He says that it is a pleasure to be under the British flag once again, and that it would take a Byron to do justice to the wonderful view of the harbour of Hongkong, as seen from the hills behind on a clear day.

HAMISH FORREST MACLENNAN (1908-15) has been appointed Consul for Egypt at Cairo. He has been there for nearly three years, and is at present acting manager of Messrs.

Cox & Kings (Agents), Ltd. JOHN CHARLES MURRAY LIGERTWOOD* (1903-06), who is in the service of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. chartered, accountants, has been transferred from their Calgary office to be manager at their Winnipeg office, and has been resident in the latter town since September. In addition to the management at Winnipeg, he has supervision of the firm's business in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. In consequence of the change, Ligertwood has taken office as Club Consul at Winnipeg.

ALEXANDER and ROBERT WILLIAM YOUNG (1914-21), who came to the School from Mexico and have now returned there, have been appointed joint Club Consuls at Mexico City.

List of Consuls.

AUSTRALIA (New South Wales) :—HERBERT A. BREMNER (1893-95), Commonwealth Oxygen and Accessories, Ltd., Balmain, Sydney.

AUSTRALIA (Victoria) :—THOMAS G. WATSON Box 26, Stock Exchange, Melbourne.

(1896-99),

BORNEO :—Rt. Rev. E. D. LOGIE DANSON (1892-94), D.D., Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, Bishop's House, Kucking, Sarawak, via Singapore.

CANADA (Manitoba) :—JOHN CHARLES MURRAY LIGERTWOOD (1903-06), C.A., c/o Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 201 Huron and Erie Building, Winnipeg.

CANADA (British Columbia) :—WILLIAM ERNEST MILNE (1881-90), 347 Water Street, Vancouver.

CANADA (New Brunswick) :—WILLIAM MENZIES KESSON (1893-98), Fredericton.

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CANADA (Nova Scotia) :—GEORGE MACKENZIE WOOD (18801882), cfo Messrs. Joseph Wood & Co., Central Wharf, Halifax.

CANADA (Ontario) :—ROBERT FLEMING (1891-98), C.E., dio Messrs. Wood, Fleming & Co., Royal Bank Buildings, Toronto.

CENTRAL AMERICA (Guatemala) :—CHARLES H. MOIR (1873-76), 4a Avenida Norte No. 30, Guatemala, via New Orleans and Puerto Barrios.

CEYLON :—DAVID SCOTT (1886-94), cio Messrs. Lewis Brown & Co., Colombo. [At present residing at 36 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen.]

CHILE :-JAMES ALEXANDER RHIND (1902-04), The AngloChilian Consolidated Nitrate Corporation, Tocopilla.

CHINA (Hongkong) :—ALAN REID (1911-14), Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong.

CHINA (Shanghai) :—GEORGE ALSTON BUYERS (1906-08), C.A., 2 Canton Road, Shanghai.

CHINA (Tientsin) :—JOHN CAMERON TAYLOR (1904-06), cio Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Tientsin.

CUBA :-ALLAN CUNNINGHAM ANDERSON (1907-12), Royal Bank of Canada, Havana.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA :—Captain JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (19061911), M.A., F.R.G.S., His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul, Prague.

EGYPT :—HAMISH FORREST MACLENNAN (1908-15), Turf Club, Cairo.

F.M.S. (Negri Sembilan) :—DONALD TRENCH SKEEN (18951899), M.B., Seremban.

F.M.S. (Perak) :—WILLIAM CLARK WARRACK (1898-1909), Sungkai Estate, Sungkai, Perak.

F.M.S. (Selangor) :—COLIN HAY MILLER (1900-04), Lenggeng Estate, Semenyih P.O. FIJI :-KENNETH JAMES ALLARDYCE (1894-95), Nabavatu.

GERMANY :—JAMES GORDON DANIELSON (1896-1901), Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, M0nckeberg Strasse 27, Hamburg, 1.

GOLD COAST COLONY :—WILLIAM MILLER (1894—?), Resident Engineer, Takoradi Harbour Works, Sekondi.

INDIA (Assam) :—WILLIAM H. G. HALLY (1889-96), Singlo Tea Co., Ltd., Jaboka Division, Sonari P.O. INDIA (Bengal) :—G. F. ROSE (1881-92), c/o Messrs. Andrew Yule and Co., Ltd., 8 Clive Row, Calcutta.

INDIA (Central Provinces) :—JOHN HALL RITCHIE (1903-09), M.A., B.Sc., Agricultural Department, Jubbulpur.

INDIA (Punjab) :—WILLIAM NORMAN LESLIE (1892-95), M.A , B.L., Southern Punjab Railway Co., Ltd., Ferozepore.

INDIA (Rajputana) :—GEORGE TAYLOR SIMPSON (1910-20), Jodhpur State Railway, Jodhpur.

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MEXICO :---ALEXANDER and ROBERT YOUNG (1914-21), c/o William Young & Co., S.A., Avenida el Salvador 102, Mexico City.

NEW ZEALAND :—Dr. THEODORE GRANT GRAY (1895-1901), Government Buildings, Wellington.

NIGERIA Provinces) :-CAMPBELL (Northern GRANT Mc KENZIE (1910-12), Gombe, Bauchi Province.

NIGERIA (Southern Provinces) :—Dr. WILLIAM EDWARD GLOVER (1896-98), c/o The Principal Medical Officer, Lagos.

PALESTINE :-ROBERT BLAKE WORSLEY HOLMES (1895), General Manager, Palestine Railways, Haifa.

POLAND :—J AMES BRYCE CLARKE (1896-99), Anglo-Polish Bank, Warsaw.

RHODESIA (Southern) :—NORMAN ALEXANDER SINCLAIR (1913-16), Midlothian Syndicate, Midlothian Farm, P.B., Salisbury.

SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Province) :—Dr. ALEXANDER MARR GEDDES (1897-1903), go Lady Buxton Home, Newlands Road, Claremont, Cape Town.

SOUTH AFRICA (Natal) :—DAVID STRACHAN (1893-1902), 19 Hulston's Buildings, Durban..

SOUTH AFRICA (Orange Free State) :—DOUGLAS GORDON BISSET (1890-1900), Castor Siding, Private Bag, Bloemfontein.

SOUTH AFRICA (Transvaal) :—JAMES MOIR (1881-93), M.A., D.Sc., Government Laboratory, Box 1080, Johannesburg.

SOUTH AMERICA (The Argentine) :—REGINALD J. G. WILSON (1905-11), British Bank of South America, Ltd., Buenos Aires.

SOUTH AMERICA (Brazil) :—A. BAIN MACKIE (1896-1904), Royal Bank of Canada, Caixa do Correio No. 300, Rio de Janeiro.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (Penang) :—JOHN RHYS DANSON (1897-1903), Municipal Office, Penang.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (Singapore) :—JOHN IVO DAWSON (1900- 04), c/o Messrs. Guthrie & Co., Singapore.

SUDAN :-JAMES LORIMER SOUPER (1898-1909), P. W. D., Wad Medani.

SUMATRA :—EDWA RD PERCY BARNETT (1895-1903), The Bandar Sumatra Rubber Co., Ltd., Bandar Pinang, P.O., Galang, E.C., Sumatra.

UGANDA :—GRAEME GEORGE SUTHERLAND (1903-09), Bulyango Estate, P.O., Masindi.

UNITED STATES (Chicago) :—THOMAS B. G. HENDERSON (1894-1900), 1715 Illinois Merchants Bank Building, Chicago.

UNITED STATES (New York) :—WILLIAM MACKINTOSH (1893-96), Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., 84 William Street, New York.

UNITED STATES (Island of Hawaii) :—LOUIS WILSON (18721875), Hilo, Hawaii.

WEST INDIES (Tobago) :—KENNETH REID (1901-04), King's Bay. WEST INDIES (Trinidad) :—ARCHIBALD YOUNG (1885-93), c/o Messrs. Alston & Co., Ltd., Port of Spain.

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The London Section.

As is generally known, the Club has in London a very flourishing Section, which is composed of members residing in the Metropolis and within a radius of approximately 50 miles thereof. At present there are about 230 members in the Section, the President of which is Lord Meston of Agra and Dunottar, K.C.S.I. During the winter season the Section arranges a series of Informal Dinners, at which one of the more distinguished F.P.s delivers a paper or an address on some topic of the day or on some other subject in which he is especially interested.

These Dinners are quite informal affairs, morning dress being worn. They are well attended, and afford Old Boys resident in the neighbourhood an opportunity of meeting together and renewing friendships of bygone days. The price of the Dinner (which is of excellent quality) is very moderate, and is collected during the evening.

It is realised that of the large numbers of F.P.s scattered throughout the Provinces (including those in Aberdeen), there must be many whose business or other interests take them to London from time to time, and it is felt that an opportunity should be extended to them to take advantage of the meetings in London to spend an hour or two with some of their old friends.

The President and Committee of the London Section accordingly desire to extend a very hearty welcome to any Old Boy visiting town to spend an evening with them.

The following programme has been arranged for the current season (1928-29) :— Thursday, 29th November, 1928 : Address by Mr. Thos.

Hardie, M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer to The Gas Light and Coke Company, London, on " The Gas Supply of London."

Thursday, 31st January, 1929: Illustrated Lecture by Mr. W. Douglas Simpson, D.Litt., on " Kindrochit Castle : the Completed Excavations and their Results."

Thursday, 14th March, 1929 : Address by Mr. J. Murray Easton on " Germany after the War—a Superficial View."

The meetings will be held at 7.30 p.m. in the Holborn Restaurant, Kingsway.

The Secretary of the Section is Mr. Thos. D. H. Brown, Esbourn, Lawrie Park Crescent, Sydenham, S.E.26, who will be pleased to reserve a place for any provincial or other member who desires to attend one or more of these functions, on hearing from him ; or, if time does not permit an Old Boy to make arrangements beforehand, all he need do is to ask for the Secretary on his arrival at the meeting.

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The Motor Section.

The Section was exceptionally unlucky during the last season, several events having to be abandoned owing to torrential rain. The majority of our members being also members of the Aberdeen and District Motor Club, arrangements were made at the commencement of the season whereby each club held an event on alternate Saturdays.

Consequently if the weather proved unfavourable one Saturday, then the event for that day had to be held over to the end of the season, and some of our competitions—in particular the Munro and the Michie Cup trials—have had to be abandoned altogether.

The Section took part in a very successful Gymkhana during the Students' Hospital Gala Week in May, and although it was beaten 5 goals to 3 in the Motor Cycle Football Match, many of the grass track races which followed fell to F.P.s.

The high standard of riding which has always been associated with the F.P.'s Motor Section has again been apparent this year. Members of the Section have competed in all the principal motor cycling events in Scotland, and have gained distinction in both speed and reliability.

Results of the Section competitions are as follows :28th April. Flexibility Hill Climb.—Motor cycles not exceeding 350 ccs. :1st. J. F. R. Fairweather, 349 B.S.A. 2nd. I. Flockhart 347 A.J.S. Motor Cycles not exceeding 600 ccs. :1st D. Fairweather, B.S.A. 2nd W. Bryce, Norton.

Brake Test :1st D. Fairweather, 490 B.S.A. 2nd I. Flockhart, 347 A.J.S. 3rd C. G. Brown, 490 P. & M. 19th May. The " Hector Quaich " reliability trial was run over an 80-mile course under adverse weather conditions. Only four competitors out of a large entry completed the course, which included such notorious hills as " Migvie, ' " Coull Hill," and the " Old Cabrach."

The result was as follows :-1st C. G. Brown, 490 P. & M. ; 2nd J. F. R. Fairweather, 349 B.S.A. ; 3rd J. Allan, 347 A. J. S. (equal) (8 marks lost) ; 4th D. S. Brown, 250 B.S.A. (17 marks lost).

26 May. Freak Hill Climb.—On this Saturday the Section held a motor cycle freak hill-climb at Tulloch, by kind permission of the Rowett Institute. The following were prize-winners :—Motor cycles not exceeding 250ccs. :—D. S. Brown, 250 B.S.A. Motor cycles not exceeding 350ccs. :-1st Ian Flockhart, 347 A.J.S. ; 2nd J. F. R. Fairweather, 349 B.S.A. ; 3rd C. Jackson, 349 B.S.A. ; Motor cycles unlimited ccs. :-1st J. G. Brown, 490 Norton ; 2nd W. C. Bryce, 490 Norton ; 3rd D. Fairweather, 490 B.S.A. 8th September. Speed Trials.—The most popular of all the Section's competitions is undoubtedly the Straight Half-Mile. The speeds achieved on this occasion were not the maximum possible, a standing start being necessitated by the conditions, as the Section has not yet been able to obtain a sufficiently long stretch of straight road to give the competitors a reasonable distance to " brake " after the measured half-mile.

The results were as follows :—Motor cycles not exceeding 350 ccs. :1st I. Flockhart, 347 A. J.S. ; 2nd D. Fairweather, 349 B.S.A. ; 3rd J. Allan, 347 A.J.S. Motor cycles not exceeding 600ccs. :-1st J. G. Brown, 490 Norton ; 2nd C. G. Brown, 490 P. &. M. ; 3rd J. Flockhart, 347 A.J.S. The fastest time of the day again fell to J. G. Brown on his " Camshaft " Norton, his time being 28 secs.

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In conclusion, the Secretary desires to thank all those who acted as observers, timekeepers, or in any other capacity during the season.

As there are many motorist F.P.s who are not yet members of this Section cf the Club, it is hoped that they will come forward and participate in this great sport.

All information as to membership can be had from the Secretary, Rex Fowell, Huntcliffe, Cults.

The Cricket Section.

The past season has been quite a successful one. Unfortunately the membership did not come up to expectations and consequently there was difficulty in getting a side to play evening matches. The Section entered as usual for the Aberdeenshire Cricket Association Cup. We secured a bye in the first round, and met Crescent in the second round at the Duthie Park. After defeating Crescent we met Mannofield Xl, who beat us rather badly. This balanced their defeat last year in the same competition. The Section hopes that any F.P. who plays cricket will come forward next season, and thus increase the membership and enable the Section to run two XIs. The Section played 14 matches : 6 were won, 7 were lost, and 1 was drawn.

Some of the best individual performances were as follows :— G. P. Marr .

J. L. Wilson J. Lindsay .

J. Lindsay J. L. Wilson G. P. Marr .

A. J. Allan .

A. J. Allan .

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G. P. Marr • A. J. Wilson

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BATTING. 45 against Royal Mental Hospital 47 against Balmoral.

38 (not out) against Crescent (Cup Tie).

32 against Gordonians.

41 against Gordonians.

BOWLING. 5 wickets for 40 against Arbroath United.

8 wickets for 26 against Ballater.

6 wickets for 33 against Crescent (Cup Tie) 4 wickets for 11 against Crescent (Cup Tie).

5 wickets for 18 against Aboyne.

4 wickets for 18 against Grammar School.

4 wickets for 16 against Grammar School.

4 wickets for 29 against St. Ronald.

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9 2 11 4 2.7 22 2 69 9 7.6 375 40 168 52 9.3 220 23 103 29 9.5 12 1 38 3 12.6 35 4 134 10 13.4 12 1 41 3 13.6 16 1 6 1 16 13 1 40 2 20 31.6 22 2 95 3 •

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F. H. King A. J. Lockhart J. R. Donald .

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The Tennis Section.

The Section has had a fairly successful season, the weather, on the whole, being favourable for tennis. Although there was a slight increase in the membership this year, the attendance at the courts might have been better. During the earlier part of the season the team did well in several enjoyable matches, but when the summer holidays

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started, we had difficulty in raising a team, and had to postpone two fixtures, one with Newhills and the other with Banchory. The subscription to the Section is very favourable compared with other tennis clubs, and we hope interested Former Pupils will take advantage of this.

The Hockey Section.

Last season was one of our best for a number of years, and we hope to be as successful this year. We have lost quite a number of our 1st XI players, but in spite of this the team shows great promise.

As a result of the recent bad weather we have played only three matches so far. On 13th October, at Rubislaw, our opening match of the season, v. Richmond, was won 4-1 after a good, fast game.

D. W. Duthie scored four goals for F.P.s. On 20th October we played Aberdeen at the Links, and won 2-1. The scorers were W. Menzies and D. Cran. On 27th October, at Rubislaw, we drew with 'Varsity A, each side scoring once. D. W. Duthie was again the scorer, and it is unfortunate for the Section that this fine player has now left for Cambridge.

The 2nd XI have not been successful so far, and have lost all three games played. The team has been greatly weakened by several players being promoted to the 1st XI, but once they have had some practice together, they should do quite well.

The following are the 1st XI officials for season 1928-29 :—Captain, J. R. Donald ; Vice-Captain, C. J. Stewart ; Secretary and Treasurer, D. J. Walker.

The Rugby Football Section.

The Section has been unfortunate this year in having a lack of three-quarters. N. Esslemont and B. Esslemont found themselves unable to play this year, and several prospective " backs " from the School have either left the district or are playing for the University.

This has weakened the back divisions of both the 1st and the 2nd XVs, a weakness especially felt in away matches, when the Section finds it almost impossible to send a really representative team.

Owing to an insufficient number of playing members, all the " A " XV matches have had to be cancelled.

SCOTTISH RUGBY UNION TRIALS. N. Begg, J. M. MacLeod, R. Bain, G. W. Bowes, P. Walker, 1. S. Abernethy, J. A. Hay, I. F. Booth, and A. M. Scrimgcour played in the Local Trial ; Begg, MacLeod, Bain, Walker, Bowes, Booth, and Scrimgeour played for the North v. Midlands ; and Begg, Bain, and MacLeod were chosen to play for the North of Scotland v Western Counties.

1st XV Results.

Sep. 19. v. School . . . . . . .

Won 23-0 „ 22. v. Cambuslang, at Rubislaw. . . .

Lost 11-13 • 29. v. Aberdeenshire, at Rubislaw . . .

Won 34—0 Oct. 6. v. Hillhead H.S.F.P., at Glasgow . .

Lost 3-30 „ 13. v. Black Watch, at Rubislaw . . .

Draw 3-3 „ 27. v. Engineers, at Rubislaw . . . .

Won 16-0 2nd XV Results.

Oct. 6. v. Aberdeenshire, at Rubislaw . . .

Lost 3-8 „ 13. v. Bankers, at Rubislaw . . . .

Lost 0-31 „ 20. v. 2nd 'Varsity, at Kings . . .

Lost 3-12 „ 27. v. Gordon's College, at Seafield . . .

Won 3-0

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F.P. XV v. Cambuslang.—J. M. McLeod ; J. Middleton, P. Walker, G. A. M. Saunders, and N. Cowan ; G. W. Bowes and A. M. Scrimgeour ; N. D. Bess, J. S. Abernethy, R. D. Bain, J. Morrice, I. F. Booth, J. Ducat, J. J. Donald, and H. Wrigglesworth.

F.P. XV v. Aberdeenshire.—J. M. McLeod; J. Middleton, E. Strachan, J. Yule, and N. Cowan ; G. W. Bowes and A. M. Scrimgeour ; N. Begg, J. Abernethy, R. D. Bain, J. A. Hay, J. Dunnett, J. Ducat, I. R. Booth, J. Morrice.

F.P. XV v. Hillhead High Schools F.P.s.—J. M. McLeod ; R. J. Macpherson, G. M. Saunders, Sub., and E. Strachan ; G. W. Bowes and A. M. Scrimgeour ; N. Begg, R. D. Bain, J. A. Hay, J. Morrice, J. Dunnett, H. Wrigglesworth, I. F. Booth, and Substitute.

F.P. XV v. Black Watch.—J. M. McLeod ; J. Middleton, J. A. Hay, J. S. Abernethy, and N. Cowan ; E. Anderson and H. T. N. Sands ; N. D. Begg, R. D. Bain, R. Low, I. F. Booth, J. Dunnett, J. L. Ducat, F. Harper, and J. Morrice.

F.P. XV v. Engineers.—J. M. McLeod ; E. Strachan, P. J. M. Walker, J. A. Hay, and N. Cowan ; G. W. Bowes and A. M. Scrimgeour ; N. D. Begg, J. S. Abernethy, R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, R. Low, J. Morrice, A. Lockhart, and J. Dunnett.

List of New Members of the Club.

LIFE MEMBERS. Allan, David Sinclair (1906-07), Kangikoah Tea Estate, Panitola P.O., Assam.

Anderson, Archibald S. K. (1900- 06), D.S.O., M.C., M.A., M.B., Ch.B., Seacroft, Marine Parade, Gorleston, Norfolk.

Angus, Arthur R. H. (1913-16), Kardoora Estate, Meppadi P.O., Wynaad, Malabar, South India.

Bain, Robert Duncan (1915-23), 2 King's Gate, Aberdeen.

Beattie, Eric William (1921-28), Selma, Cults, Aberdeenshire.

Carroll, George Adrian (1905-12), Khetri, Rajputana, India.

Lorimer, John Gibb (1905-14), Sangkang Estate, Port Dickson, F.M.S. Mackintosh, Alan Cardno (1914-18), Wanarajah, Dickoya, Ceylon.

Spark, Ian Robert (1912-14), M.B., Ch.B., 188 Wilford Road, Nottingham.

Thomson, David Landsborough (1911-18), M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., 4435 Sherbrook Street West, Westmount, P.Q., Canada.

ORDINARY MEMBERS. Alexander James (1919-28), 13 Brander, Ian Gordon (1920-28), Mount Street, Aberdeen.

272 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen.

Anderson, Andrew Duncan (1916- Brown, William John (1921-28), 27), Milton of Fintray, Kinaldie.

20 Hosefield Avenue, Aberdeen.

Barr, James Erskine (1918-28), Cameron, Ian Fyfe (1918-28), 28 243 Westburn Road, Aberdeen.

Morven Place, Aberdeen.

Begg, Ian Forbes (1926-28), c/o Cameron, John Brunton (1923-28), 107 High Street, Old Aberdeen.

Anwoth, Cornhill Road, AberBlack,Willie Thompson (1926-28), deen.

Tyne View, Vetch Park, Had- Cowan, Nigel Smart (1924-28), dington.

159 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen.

Bonner, Robert Mitchell (1922- Cox, Lindsay Douglas (189828), 128 Osborne Place, Aber1903), Goldies Motor Supplies, deen.

Rissik, Frederick and Anderson Booth, Ian Farquhar (1916-28), Streets, Johannesburg.

17 St. Swithin Street, Aber- Cruickshank, James, Jun. ( I 927deen.

28), Ardlogie, Fyvie.

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Davidson, William Mackay (1914- Moir, George Wellington (191828), 113 Crown Street, Aber28), 6 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen. deen.

Deacon, Charles George (1917-28), Moncur, William Black Jenkinson (1918-28), Inveralmond, 14 " M.V. King John," cio Dodd, Merchiston Park, Edinburgh.

Thomson & Co., Ltd., 65 LonMonro, James (1878- 80), Avenue don Wall, London, E.C.2.

Villas, Crewe Road, Edinburgh.

Dickson, Alastair Ogston (191928), U.F. Manse, Banchory- Rennie, Alexander Milne (192528), Wester Fintray, Kintore.

Devenick, by Aberdeen.

Anderson George Ducat, Thomas (1919-22), 96 Saunders, Murray (1924-28), 34 Huntly Western Road, Woodside, AberGardens, Glasgow, W.2. deen.

Duncan, Herbert John Gordon Scott, Charles (1925-28), 29 Gilbert Road, Bucksburn, Aber(1920-28), Hillcrest, Anderson deen.

Drive, Aberdeen.

Dunnett, John Stewart (1922-28), Shinnie, Ian Gray (1918-28), 100 Desswood Place, Aberdeen.

The Manse, Elton, AberdeenSmith, David Alexander (1922shire.

27), 47 Richmondhill Road, Emslie, Kenneth Cuthbert (1925Aberdeen.

28), 82 Mile-End Avenue, AberStephen, John Low (1921-28), 17 deen.

Rubislaw Terrace, Aberdeen.

Fyfe, Robert James (1920-28), Stobie, Charles Ian Graham (1924209 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen.

27), Parish Manse, Tayport.

Gorrod, George (1924-28), 27 St. Third, James Ross Sinclair (1916Swithin Street, Aberdeen.

28), 78 Fountainhall Road, Gray, Alexander (1920-28), 61 Aberdeen.

Mile-End Avenue, Aberdeen.

Hardie, Alexander Merrie (1918- Thom, James Norman (1915-28), 148 Holburn Street, Aberdeen.

28), 131 Hamilton Place, AberTrail, James (1919-28), 31 Bonnydeen. muir Place, Aberdeen.

Harper, Francis Gordon (1925-28), Walker, Horace (1922-28), 22 Bridgend Cottage, Aboyne.

Rosebety Street, Aberdeen.

Lawson, Frederick John (191928), 94 Mile-End Avenue, Aber- Warrack, James (1922-28), 167 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen. deen.

McHattie, Hallcrow (1900- 02), Wetherly, James Marshall Rennie Cottage, Beech (1919-28), Scottish Education Department, Westerton Road, Cults.

Whitehall, London, S.W.1.

McRae, John (1917-23), 36 Hol- Wilkins, Charles William Wallace (1926-28), " Monte Cristo," burn Road, Aberdeen.

Bentota, Ceylon.

Merson, George Polson (1921-28), 402 Great Western Road, Aber- Wood, Alexander Lawson (192228), 56 Rubislaw Den South, deen.

Aberdeen.

Milne, John Fenton (1914-20), M.P.S., 25 Friern Barnet Road, Young, Andrew (1920-28), 55 Westbum Road, Aberdeen.

New Southgate, London, N.11.

Milne, Robert Lamb (1915-26), 4 Yule, James Smith (1926-28), 9 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen.

Albert Terrace, Aberdeen.

Club Colours.

Members of the F.P. Club are reminded that the supplying of Club Colours has been placed by the Executive in the hands of a single firm and that Messrs. Esslemont & Macintosh, Ltd., Union Street, Aberdeen, are the sole official outfitters to the Club. The object of the Executive in appointing only one firm was, as previously stated, to try to prevent the sale of Club Colours to unauthorised persons. Members of the Club are, therefore, earnestly requested to deal only with the official outfitters, who have been supplied with a list of the members of the Club, and who take every precaution to prevent the Colours being sold to any but those who have the right to wear them.

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HE GRAMMAR SCHOOL provides for Boys a complete course of Study, both Elementary and Secondary, Classical and Modern.

The School, which is organized in three Departments—Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools—contains excellent laboratories handsomely furnished and equipped, including a Chemical Laboratory, Science Theatre with Physical Laboratory attached, Natural Science Laboratory, Art Room, Gymnasium, Workshop, Botanical Garden, Library, Reading Room, and Museum.

Pupils in the Lower School are prepared for the Control Examination of the Education Authority, while the Senior Classes are examined for the Day School Certificate (Higher) and the Leaving Certificate of the Scottish Education Department, passes in the latter examination being recognised as exempting from further examination in the corresponding subjects of the Preliminary Examination for graduation in Arts, Science, Law and Medicine at the Scottish Universities.

The situation of the School in the West end of the City is open and healthy. The Class-rooms are large, and the Grounds for Recreation include separate Play-grounds for Juniors and Seniors, Tennis Courts, and a field for Cricket and Football.

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