James R. Napier, F.R.S.

Abstract

MANY cultivators of science, both at home and abroad, more especially those engaged in engineering and shipbuilding, will deeply regret to learn of the decease of Mr. James R. Napier, F.R.S., the eldest son of the late Mr. Robert Napier of Shandon, the eminent pioneer of the shipbuilding and marine engineering industries of the Clyde. The sad event occurred on Saturday, the 13th ult., at his house in Glasgow, after an illness which, had confined him to his room for about three weeks. His health had been very unsatisfactory, however, for a number of years, and, with the view in a great measure of securing a better bodily condition, he had travelled a good deal—to Australia, twice to America, several times up the Mediterranean, wintering once at Malta, and on another occasion at Madeira, where he had the melancholy satisfaction of having as a brother invalid the late Prof. W. K. Clifford.