Edinburgh, June 6.
Sir Archibald——Williamson, Bart., whose name appears in the Birthday Honours as one of the new Peers, belongs to an old East Fifeshire family, and is the eldest son of the late Stephen Williamson, mp., and Annie, daughter of Dr. Thomas Guthrie, the noted Scottish ecclesiastic and philanthropist. He is a partner of the merchant house of Balfour Williamson, who have large business interests in Liverpool and South America.
Brigadier-General Drummond, who receives a Barontcy, is a scion of the Midlothian House of Hawthornden, and Chairman of the London and South-Western Railway. A knighthood is bestowed upon W. iF. Russell, Chairman of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce; it was at his suggestion that the 17th, the Chamber of Commerce Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, was formed early in the war. Another Knight is Dr. John Macpherson, the recently appointed Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Sydney, N.S. W.
Mr. George W.. Chrystal, who receives the K..C. B., is a son of the late Prof. Chrystal, of Edinburgh, and has occupied a number of high positions in the Admiralty and Home Office. The Hon. C. Lindsay, one of the C, B.'s is a son of the late Earl of Crawford, and is Assistant Under-Secretar; for Foreign Affairs, Water Power in tue Htannanps. inspiring lecture was delivered by Wrofessor Magnus Maclean to the Institute of Civil Mngineers on the development of hydro-electric resources of the Highlands. The Professor is one of the leading authorities on electrical engineering. He is also a representative Highlander, an acknowledged authority on the language, literature and rural economy of the Scottish Gael. On the subject with which he dealt he thus addressed his compatriots from a commanding platform. He has a perfect and intimate command of the technical and industrial side of the problem, and he calculates that +in the Highland lochs and rivers there are considerably over 500,000 potential horse-power which might utilized in establishing suitable industries.
In the final report of 1921, the Water Power Resources Committee gave details of 39 schemes in the Scottish Highlands which, if developed,' would yield continuous
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