The Principles and Practice of Accountancy in Relation to Engineering Design and Work (Classic Reprint)

Foundation. The first lecture, dealing with commercial and technical relations of engineering design and work, showed that the lecturer was not merely content to point the road to success, but, by examples from his own lifes work, showed how he had achieved it. Such a lecture could not fail to bring out the characteristics of the lecturer, enterprising, painstaking, and, above all, thorough; and with that pcrfervidum ingeniumS cotorum which has brought success to so many of his countrymen throughout the world, and he (the Chairman) was sure that in the lecture to which they were about to listen, those characteristics would be as much in evidence as ever. The Chairman then called upon Mr. Frame Thomson to deliver the second lecture of his foundation on The principles and practice of Accountancy in relation toE ngineering design and work. Mr. Frame Thomson :M yfirst duty this year is the painful one of recalling the sad death of Sir James I nglis, Past Pres. I nst.C.E., who, himself an old student, took the greatest interest in, and contributed many and useful suggestions towards, the foundation of this series of lectures. Those who were present at the inaugural lecture in 1911 will remember the genial and friendly remarks in which he encouraged the students to increase the efficiency of their technical acquirements by some familiarity with the commercial practice and principles of those with whom their profession brings them into contact. A pathetic interest has been given to that occasion by the fact that it was the last timeS ir James took the chair at a meeting in the I nstitution. His loss leaves a blank in the circle of those to whom the students of the Institution could look with confidence for support and guidance, a blank which it will be hard for any of his successors to fill with equal devotion and personal interest. In the opening lecture last year
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