Prof. D. B. McQuistan

Abstract

PROF. D. B. MCQUISTAN, who recently retired from the Freeland chair of natural philosophy in the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, has now, through failing health, been forced to relinquish a lifetime devoted to the cause of education. A brilliant student of the University of Glasgow, he was awarded the Thomas Logan Memorial Medal and Prize for the most distinguished graduate in arts of his year, with first-class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy, and in classics. The William Houlds-worth research studentship afforded him the opportunity of spending a profitable year at the University of Cambridge, and, along with his later services as a mathematical teacher, he was well equipped for the duties of the chair which he afterwards occupied with great distinction. Many thousands of students will remember with gratitude his lucidity as a lecturer, and his exceptional aptitude in clarifying any difficult mathematical or scientific complexity. His popular lectures of scientific interest to varied audiences were an inspiration to the expert and a delight to the novice.