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WE regret to record the death, which occurred on June 14, at the age of seventy-one years, of Sir Ernest William Moir. Born on June 9, 1862, Moir in the early part of his career came into close contact with Fowler, Baker, Arrol, Wolfe-Barry and other eminent civil engineers and during his long and distinguished career as a partner in the firm of Messrs. S. Pearson and Son, Limited, worthily upheld the high traditions of those who, as contractors, are responsible for carrying out works of the greatest magnitude. Both in his presidential address on “Engineering Difficulties” to the Junior Institution of Engineers in December, 1929, and his address entitled “The Interdependence of Science and Engineering, with some Examples”, given as president of Section G (Engineering) at the Bristol meeting of the British Association in 1930, he made many interesting references to some of the important undertakings with which he had been associated; and as “the first contracting civil engineer who has been honoured by the British Association”, at Bristol he appropriately dealt at considerable length with the economics of engineering construction. Another section of his address was devoted to the bacteriological and entomological sciences and their influence on civil engineering.
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Sir Ernest Moir, Bt. Nature 131, 901 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131901a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131901a0