94 



NATURE 



[September 15/ 192 i 



T. Rupert Jones in founding the Geological Maga- 

 zine, and from the beginning of 1865 until the 

 end of 1918 he was its sole editor. He thus pro- 

 vided a valuable medium for publication, of which 

 due advantage was taken by nearly all British 

 geologists. His kindly advice and able editing 

 encouraged and aided his contributors, and the 

 adequate presentation of the results of much re- 

 search is due to his experienced guidance. As 

 keeper of geology in the British Museum he also 

 continually stimulated workers, and the series of 

 descriptive catalogues of fossils published under 

 his official direction furnished valuable aids to 

 progress. Nor did h^ overlook the amateur, 

 whose sympathy and watchfulness can do so much 

 for geology. He added explanatory diagrams 

 and descriptive labels to the exhibited collection 

 of fossils, and made the guide-books more attrac- 

 tive by providing them with illustrations. His 

 genial personality made him hosts of friends, who 

 were ever ready to do the museum such service 

 as was possible. 



Dr. Woodward also took an active part in the 

 work of several scientific societies. He joined 

 the Geological Society in 1864, became president 

 in 1894—96, and was awarded the Wollaston 

 medal in igo6. He was elected a fellow of the 

 Royal Society in 1873. For several years he was 

 a member of council of the British Association, 

 and he presided over the geological section at 

 Manchester in 1887. He was an especially active 

 honorary member of the Geologists' Association, 

 of which he Was president in 1873-75. He suc- 

 ceeded Prof. Huxley as president of the Palaeonto- 

 graphical Society in 1895, and occupied the chair 

 until his death. He was a founder and the first 

 president of the Malacological Society. He also 

 became president of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society, and for many years was one of the vice- 

 presidents of the Zoological Society. He received 

 the honorary degree of LL.D. from St. Andrews 

 in 1878, and was honoured abroad by election to 

 the foreign membership of many societies. 



In 1857 Dr. Woodward married Miss 

 Ellen Sophia Page, of Norwich, who was an able 

 helpmate during the whole of his career, and 

 closely associated with him in his work. She 

 died in 191 3, and her memory is treasured by 

 those who had the good fortune to attend the 

 frequent hospitable gatherings at her home. The 

 eldest son was for some years Government Geo- 

 logist of Western Australia, and the second son 

 began a promising career in zoology at the Royal 

 College of Science, but both met with a premature 

 death. One of the five daughters. Miss 

 Gertrude M. Woodward, has rendered valuable 

 service to palaeontology by the admirable draw- 

 ings with which she has enriched many works 

 during the past thirty-five years. 



It is with much regret that we have to announce 

 the death of Lieut. -Col. Sir Peter Johnston 

 Frever, which took place on Friday last, Sep- 

 tember 9. Sir Peter was born in 1852, and re- 

 NO. 2707, VOL. 108] 



ceived his early education at Erasmus Smith's 

 College, Galway. For his medicdl training he 

 went to University College, Dublin, where he 

 obtained his M.D. and M.Ch. in 1874; he also 

 studied in Paris. In 1875 he was appointed to 

 the Indian Medical Service, in which he served 

 with distinction for a number of years, 

 being appointed to represent India at the 

 International Medical and Surgical Congress 

 held at Rome in 1894. He was the re- 

 cipient of the Arnott Memorial Medal in 1904 

 for original work in surgery. After retiring from 

 the Indian Medical Service Sir Peter set up in 

 practice as a consulting surgeon in London, and 

 also acted as consulting surgeon to Queen Alex- 

 andra's Military Hospital and to the Eastern 

 Command. He was best known for his work on 

 surgical diseases of the urinary system, and par- 

 ticularly of the prostate gland, in connection with 

 which he devised the operation now in general 

 use for its removal in cases of enlargement. For 

 his services to. the community he was created 

 C.B. in 1917, and advanced to K.C. B. later in 

 the same year. 



By the death of Major G. H. Norman, at the 

 Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, aviation has lost 

 one of its few scientific enthusiasts. An unusual 

 combination of knowledge with expertness 

 as a flyer had marked him out for important 

 research under the Air Ministry, and one of his 

 recent striking successes was the analysis 

 of the causes of fire in aeroplanes, particularly 

 after a crash. The more important defects 

 were soon detected, and remedies for them 

 suggested and put into effect. Before his death 

 the point was reached at which a number of 

 equally probable causes were shown to exist, 

 and attention is being directed to their elimination. 



Recognition of Major Norman's activities came 

 early in the war, and his services in developing 

 aerial gunnery were of great value. His efforts 

 led to the simplification of sighting arrangements, 

 and followed from a recognition of the limitations 

 peculiar to fighting in the air. 



We announce with much regret the death, on 

 September 6, of Mr. G. W. Walker, F.R.S., at 

 the early age of forty-seven years. 



The death is announced, on September 8, at 

 the age of seventy-two years, of the Rev. J. B. 

 Lock, senior fellow and bursar of Gonville and 

 Caius College, Cambridge, the author of many 

 well-known school books of mathematics. 



We regret to learn of the death, on August 24, 

 of Dr. J. A. Allen, for thirty-seven years a 

 member of the staff of the .A.merican Museum of 

 Natural History, New York. 



The death took place on September 11, at the 

 age of seventy-one, of Mr. R. E. Baynes, senior 

 student of Christ Church, Oxford, and Lee's 

 reader in physics. 



