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NATURE 



Hill, keeper of the medals in the British Museum, 

 the work was entrusted to Mr. Carter Preston, 

 who has produced the beautiful design shown in 

 the accompanying reproductions of photographs. 

 The obverse shows Hygieia, daughter of 



[July 21, 192 1 



/Esculapius, placing a wreath upon a figure 

 kneeling before her holding a lamp, signifying 

 Research. The reverse shows the centaur Chiron 

 instructing the young ^sculapius in the elements 

 of medicine. 



Obituary. 



Henry Rondel Le Sueur. 



HENRY RONDEL LE SUEUR was born on 

 January i, 1872, the son of F. C. Le Sueur, 

 of irinity, Jersey. He attended a private school 

 until 1887, and then for two years was in the 

 laboratory of a Jersey analyst, Mr. F. W. Thorns. 

 Thence in 1889 he proceeded to University Col- 

 lege, London, taking the B.Sc. degree of the 

 University of London (Honours in Chemistry) in 

 1893, and the D.Sc. degree in 1901. 



Le Sueur's teaching experience was entirely 

 connected with one institution — namely, the 

 Medical School of St. Thomas's Hospital, where 

 he was appointed demonstrator in 1894, and lec- 

 turer in 1904, a post which he was holding at the 

 time of his death on July 9. There was but one 

 break in his connection with the hospital — namely, 

 that caused by the war. In July, 1915, he was 

 commissioned major in the Royal Engineers, and 

 ordered to Gallipoli to advise on chemical warfare 

 problems, and the complaint which he contracted 

 there was probably in no small degree responsible 

 for his final illness. On his return to England he 

 was one of those originally appointed to the Gas 

 Warfare Experimental Station at Porton, Wilts., 

 where he remained until the end of 191 7, when he 

 was ordered to the United States to assist in the 

 preparation of the American Gas \\'arfare Ex- 

 perimental Station. 



Le Sueur was one of the secretaries of the 

 Chemical Society, and most of his original papers 

 are to be found in the society's journal. He was 

 a most capable experimenter, who found it neces- 

 sarv to satisfy himself on the minutest detail. This 

 probably accounts for the fact that the number of 

 his communications (twenty-four) was not large, 

 but they are characterised by a thoroughness 

 which can be rightly appreciated only by those who 

 knew his methods of work. It was, however, as 

 a teacher that Le Sueur shone as a particularly 

 bright star. His capacity for imparting know- 

 ledge to others was most pronounced and quite 

 exceptional, and among his students in the labora- 

 tory he was at his best. 



Le Sueur's most marked characteristic as a man 

 was his unfailing loyalty, whether to the science 

 of his adoption, to his colleagues and students, 

 or to his friends. Certainly the island of Jersey 

 never possessed a more loyal or truer son. His 

 efforts to mask a natural shyness and reserve of 

 manner did not always meet with the success 

 which would allow strangers to recognise the true 

 qualities of the man himself, but those who knew 

 him intimately realise that by his untimely death 



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the science of chemistry has lost a devoted 

 servant, and they have lost a true and loving 

 friend. A. C. 



We notice with much regret the announcement 

 in the British Medical Journal for July 16 of the 

 death of Sir George Savage on July 5 at the age 

 of seventy-eight years. Sir George was educated 

 at Brighton and Guy's Hospital, where he won 

 the treasurer's gold medal. He received the 

 degree of M.D. (Lond.) in 1867, and in 1878 he 

 was elected to a fellowship of the Royal College 

 of Physicians. For seventeen years — from 1872 

 to 1889 — he was connected with the Bethlem 

 Royal Hospital, and it was during this period that 

 his reputation as a psychiatrist was established." 

 In 1886 he was president of the Medico-Psycho- 

 logical Association, and in succeeding years he 

 presided over the Neurological Society and the 

 section of psychiatry of the Royal Society of 

 Medicine when this section was founded in 1912. 

 In the same year he received his knighthood. 

 For a number of years he was co-editor with 

 Dr. D. Hack Tuke of the Journal of Mental 

 Science. In 1907 he was elected Lumleian lec- 

 turer of the Royal College of Physicians, and 

 two years later he became Harveian orator, taking 

 as his subject experimental psychology and hyp- 

 notism. Sir George published one text-book, " In- 

 sanity and Allied Neuroses," which has become a 

 standard work, in addition to numerous papers 

 contributed to both English and American medical 

 journals. 



We record with regret the death of Sir Herbert 

 Babington Rowell, which occurred suddenly on 

 June 23. Sir Herbert, we learn from Engineering 

 for July I, was born in 1860, and finished his pro- 

 fessional education at Glasgow University, where 

 he studied naval architecture under Profs. Elgar 

 and Jenkins. After experience with various ship- 

 building firms, he became manager of the Hebburn 

 shipyard of Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie, 

 and Co., Ltd., and in igi6 became managing 

 director of this firm. Sir Herbert was the first 

 lecturer in naval architecture at Armstrong Col- 

 lege, Newcastle. He was also a member of the 

 council of the Institution of Naval Architects, 

 and a member of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers. From 1912 to 1914 he was president 

 of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation, and 

 from 1915 to 1917 president of the North-East 

 Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders. 

 In addition he was a member of Lloyd's Tech- 



