Mr. Bonar. Law will be our first "Colonial born" Prime Minister. ing his appointment in 1883, on his! election as Professor of Physics in the Imperial University of Japan His work in this position was much appreciated, and was recognized. in 1891 by the Japanese Government decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun. It may be recalled that another of Tait's students, J. A. Owing, who had gone to Japan a few years earlier,' is now the Principal of Edinburgh University. At Tokio Knott met a Scottish lady, Miss Mary Dixon, sister of the Professor of English Literature and daughter of the Rev. J. M. Dixon, of Paisley, to whom he was married in 1885. Professor and Mrs. Knott took a warm interest in the Japanese people: and after their return to Edinburgh in 1891 showed great kindness to Japanese visitors to the city and Japanese students in the University. While in Japan, Knott became interested in earthquakes, and much of the original work on which his scientific reputation was founded related either to this subject or to magnetism. With the geographical aspect. of magnetism he had been specially concerned in 1887, when he conducted the magnetic survey of Japan. The eldest daughter of his family is a missionary of the. United Free Church in Calcutta, engaged in educational work among high-caste Hindu girls in the Duff High School.
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