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NA TURE 



[March 9, 1922 



Obit 



Sir George Carter, K.B.E 



BY the death of Sir George Carter, there passes 

 one of the greatest figures in the shipbuilding 

 industry of the last twenty years. He had been in 

 ill-health for rather more than twelve months, but had 

 not formally retired from his position of managing 

 director of Messrs. Cammell Laird's famous shipbuild- 

 ing and engineering works at Birkenhead. Sir George 

 Carter was trained at the Royal Dockyard at Ports- 

 mouth, and furnishes another name on the list of great 

 shipbuilders who have come from that excellent nursery, 

 the Dockyard Schools. 



Soon after completing his training at Portsmouth Sir 

 George Carter proceeded to the well-known Tyneside 

 firm of Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., where 

 his uncle. Sir Philip Watts, was naval architect. A 

 man of extraordinary vigour and of sound judgment, 

 he was quickly given the important post of shipyard 

 manager, and his tenure of this position for eighteen 

 years witnessed the production of some very notable 

 and epoch-making ships as well as a large extension 

 of the firm's premises at their merchant shipyard at 

 Walker. 



Though always an important figure in the industry, 

 it was during the last ten years that Sir George Carter 

 came very prominently before the public, when in 

 1912 he became managing director of the Merseyside 

 firm. He succeeded in extending the firm's business 

 and premises in a remarkable manner, and when the 

 war came in 1914 he was able to devote his whole 

 energies to, and to utilise to the full the firm's great 

 resources in the construction of warships. 



Sir George Carter's activities were too numerous 

 for mention in a short notice of his career, but reference 

 must be made to the very important part he played as 

 chairman of the Advisory Committee on Merchant 

 Shipbuilding under the Shipping Controller in the 

 fateful days of the early part of 191 7. It was this 

 committee that evolved the standard ship and made 

 a supreme effort to organise the whole industry in 

 order to simplify manufacture and increase output. 

 Sir George also occupied many positions of im- 

 portance, being a member of the council of the Institu- 

 tion of Naval Architects, of the Committee of Lloyd's 

 Register of Shipping, of the Mersey Docks and Harbour 

 Board, and of the Court of the University of Liverpool. 



All those who knew Sir George Carter intimately 

 and were familiar with his work during the war will 

 agree that he spent himself in the service of his 

 country and sacrificed some years of his life in its behalf. 



T. B. A. 



Dr. H. Lyster Jameson. 

 We regret to announce that Dr. Henry Lyster 

 Jameson died at his home at West Mersea, Essex, 

 on February 26, of haemorrhage of the lungs, at 

 forty-seven years of age. Dr. Jameson was educated 

 at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the degrees 

 of B.A. and D.Sc. He spent a year at the Royal 

 College of Science, London, and then worked at the 

 University of Heidelberg, where he studied zoology 

 under Biitschli. Afterwards he went to British New 

 Guinea, where he had charge of a pearling station, and 

 this gave him opportunities for research into the 



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causes of pearl-formation, an investigation which 

 he continued at the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Station 

 in Piel, Barrow-in-Furness. There he established the 

 parasitic theory of pearl-formation in the common 

 sea mussel, and he extended the research later into a 

 study of the various processes by which the orient pearl 

 is formed, publishing a series of papers in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society and elsewhere. About 

 this time his health broke down, and, threatened with 

 pulmonary phthisis, he went to South Africa, where 

 he was, for a time, on the staff of the Natal Education 

 Department and, later, a lecturer at the Technical 

 College in Johannesburg. 



Some few years before the war Dr. Jameson returned 

 to England and was appointed to a post in the Board 

 of Education, becoming a Senior Examiner. At the 

 outbreak of war in 1914 he was seconded for special 

 service in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 and, later, became District Inspector for the South- 

 Eastern Coast. At that time the slipper-limpet was 

 becoming a pest to the oyster fisheries, and Dr. Jameson 

 organised a system of collecting and disposing of this 

 noxious mollusc. A very successful factory for the 

 preparation of shell-grit from the limpets dredged up 

 in the course of the oyster fishing was set up at West 

 Mersea, and he was in charge of this up to the time of 

 his death. In 1918 he became Adviser on Inshore 

 Fisheries to the Development Commissioners and his 

 .work became largely administrative, but lately he 

 was very active in the investigation of vitamins in 

 molluscan shell-fish, working on this subject in col- 

 laboration with Prof. W. Bayliss. » 



Such was Dr. Jameson's persistent ill-health that 

 any form of physical activity became impossible, but 

 under this strain he developed a strong and most 

 engaging personality and wide interests in social and 

 economic reform movements. He was a man of great 

 general culture, a very accomplished field zoologist, 

 and a most lovable friend to those who knew him 

 well. He leaves behind him a widow and two daughters. 



Sir Edward Gonner, K.B.E, 



We record with great regret the death, on Feb- 

 ruary 24, in his sixtieth year, of Sir Edward C. K. 

 Gonner, who was for more than thirty years the Pro- 

 fessor of Economic Science in the University of Liver- 

 pool, and whose skill and power of organisation have 

 done much to earn for that University the high position 

 it holds as a centre of economic teaching. The view 

 which he entertained of the difficulty and of the import- 

 ance of economic study, and which inspired him in his 

 work, is well expressed in the address he wrote for the 

 Toronto meeting of the British Association in 1897, 

 as President of Section F : " This is needed by all 

 those who, either by action, word, or vote, have a 

 part in the direction of the destinies of a country." 

 Again appointed President of that Section at the 

 Australian meeting in 1914, he enforced the same 

 moral. He published some valuable text-books on 

 economic subjects. He served on the Royal Com- 

 mission on Shipping Conferences. As chairman of the 

 War Savings Committee for Cheshire he also rendered 

 public service, and was appointed a Companion of the 

 Order of the British Empire. He was promoted to a 



