JOHN

See also:

• JOHN ADAIR (d. 1722)

ADAIR (d. 1722)  , Scottish surveyor and map-maker of the 17th century . Nothing is known of his parentage, birth-place or early life . His name first came before the public in 1683, when a prospectus was published in Edinburgh entitled An Account of the Scottish Atlas, stating that " the Privy Council of Scotland has appointed John Adair, mathematician and skilfull mechanick, to survey the shires." In 1686 an act of tonnage was passed in Adair's favour . He was then employed on a survey of the Scottish coast and two years later was made a fellow of the Royal Society . Two other acts of tonnage were passed for 1 66 ACTUARY- commentaries, viz., H . H . Wendt's edition of Meyer (1899), and that by R . J . Knowling in The Expositor's Greek Testament, vol. ii . (190o), supplemented by his Testimony of St Paul to Christ (1905) . See, also J . Moffatt, The Historical New Testament (1901) .

412 if., 655 ff.; C . Clemen,

Die Apostelgesch. im Lichte der neueren Forschungen (Giessen, 1905) ; and A . Harnack, Die Apostelgeschichte (1908) . (J . V .