Abstract
JAMES HENRY RONALDSON, who died on August 5, was a very well-known and much respected consulting mining engineer and geologist. He was born in the county of East Lothian and received his scientific and technical education at the Universities of Edinburgh and Liege. He travelled widely, but was probably best known in Australia and South Africa, where he had resided for comparatively long periods. Ho made London his headquarters as from 1910, and his business, until the outbreak of the Great War, took him to all sorts of countries. Shortly after the outbreak of the War, he found himself in the Ministry of Munitions, but after a short period of sorviee there, Messrs. Brotherton and Co., Leeds, who had gono in for the manufacture of munitions, applied for his services, and he supervised their manufacture of explosives until 1918. After that he continued his practise, and for a fow years was associated with Dr. William Cullen in consulting business.
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