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Dr. Henry Lyster Jameson. 



We regret to announce the death of Dr. Henry Lyster Jameson, at his resi- 

 dence in West Mersea, on Sunday, February 26. Jameson was a very accom- 

 pUshed zoologist and also an acute and capable administrator. As a boy 

 he went to sea before the mast, and after " roughing it " in this way he 

 received his scientific education at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took 

 the degree of M. A. He spent a year at the Royal College of Science in London, 

 and then two years at the University of Heidelberg, where he took the degree 

 of Ph.D. Then he went to Samarai in British New Guinea, where he had 

 charge of a pearling station and had opportunities for much zoological re- 

 search, the result of which was a revision of the pearl-shells and a study of the 

 processes involved in pearl formation. Returning to England, he was, for 

 a time, lecturer at the Municipal Technical College at Derby, and there 

 and at the Lancashire Fisheries Station, at Piel, Barrow-in-Furness, he de- 

 monstrated in a very brilliant manner the parasitic theory of pearl formation 

 in the common sea mussel. About this time his health broke down and he 

 had to go to South Africa, where he was, for a time, an inspector in the Natal 

 Educational Department, and then a lecturer at the Technical College in 

 Johannesburg. He and his wife spent much time in collecting in the 

 Transvaal. Again returning to England, he was given an administrative 

 post in the Board of Education, but at the outbreak of the war he was seconded 

 for special fishery work with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He 

 was District Inspector for the South-East Coast, and he also established a 

 very successful shell-grit factory at West Mersea, which utilised waste material 

 collected by the local oyster dredgers. For the last three years of his life 

 he was also adviser on Inshore Fisheries to the Development Commissioners. 



Since igoi he lived in a continual state of ill-health which had, however, 

 no apparent effect on his activities. He did brilliant work on pearl formation 

 and became the leading authority on this subject, but his administrative 

 work, at the Board of Education, in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 and at the Development Commission was of a very high order : he showed 

 that a man who was by nature a field zoologist and able to practise scientific 

 technique of the best kind could also be an exceptionally capable administra- 

 tor. In spite of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and a dilated heart, he went 

 about a great deal even in 1919, going to sea on the West Coast of Scotland 

 to report on the possibility of estabhsliing oyster fisheries in the lochs. He 

 worked very quickly and could make rapid but eminently sound decisions. 



Of late years an interest in all kinds of economic reform became almost a 

 passion with him : that a man of his keen insight and high intellectual grade 

 could identify himself with extreme Labour politics had a powerful effect 

 upon his many friends, and it was extraordinary to note the influence he had 

 on all sorts of people. He was a brilliant conversationahst and a maker of 

 striking epigrams. He feared nothing so much as a condition of chronic 

 invaUdism, so that his death, coming suddenly as it did, was a happy fate. 

 There are few scientific men whose loss will be so grievously felt by their 

 friends. His career will be a conspicuous example of the success with which 

 a man of high scientific attainments can also act as an administrative of&cial. 



Death o£ Two Well-known Physiologists. 



We have to record the death of Prof. Augustus Waller, the well-known 

 physiologist, who died at the age of sixty-six. Prof. Waller's death will 

 come as a shock to many of those who knew him personally and believed 

 that he had many years of fruitful work before him. 



Waller was a student of the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, 

 and he also studied in Germany. He subsequently held a number of 



