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medical men to Paris in 1905. Prof. Bouchard was 

 held in high regard in France and abroad, and his 

 ieath will be generally regretted. 



By the death of Lieut. Gordon Sanderson, killed in 

 Piranc-e on October 13, the Archaeological Survey of 

 fndia has lost the services of a young officer of great 



)mise. Mr. Sanderson was born in 1886, and, after 

 jfving for a time in the Egyptian Public Works De- 

 irtment, was appointed in 1910 an assistant super- 

 itendent in the eastern circle of the Archaeological 

 >urvey of India. At the end of 191 1 he was trans- 

 »rred to the northern circle as officiating superintcn- 

 ient of Muhammadan and British Monuments, while 

 >r. Ph. Vogel was acting general superintendent in 

 le absence of Mr. Marshall. His appointment was 

 jnfirmed In March, 19 12. At the beginning of the 



jsent year he received perrhisslon to transfer to the 

 Blitary department, and was attached to the 2nd Batt. 

 id Gurkhas. Mr. Sanderson's work In the northern 



role was especially concerned with the conservation 

 the Important examples of Mughal art in Delhi, 



jra, and Lahore. Some few years ago, arrange- 



»nts were made whereby the royal palaces, which 



id been used as barracks, were evacuated by the 

 |iilitary authorities and handed over to the survey. 

 Sanderson ably continued the work of 



itoratlon made possible by the transfer. Its progress 



^as announced from time to time in his contributions 



the annual reports of the survey. These Included 



description of the Shah Burj, a pavilion built by 

 Shah Jehan, and restored by the late Mr. Froude 

 Tucker In 1908, a report on conservation In Agra and 

 the neighbourhood, and an account of Shah Jehan 's 

 Fort at Delhi, in w'hlch his powers of lucid description 

 were ably seconded by his skill as a draughtsman. 



With much regret we announce the death of Mr. 

 Donald Ewen, who was killed while tending the 

 wounded between the lines near Loos about a fort- 

 night ago. Mr. Ewen was serving at the time as a 

 private in the London Scottish Regiment, but an 

 order for his recall, to take up important work at the 

 National Physical Laboratory, had been issued by the 

 War Office ; he is thus another of those sad cases 

 where a promising young man of science, who was 

 to have returned home for Important work, has been 

 killed just before the order was to be carried out. 

 Mr. Ewen was born In Birmingham in 1887, and 

 educated at Oundle School and Birmingham Univer- 

 sity, taking his M.Sc. In metallurgy In 1910, and 

 gaining the Wiggin and Bowen research scholarships. 

 He then entered the National Physical Laboratory, 

 where he was to attain the grade of assistant on his 

 return from France. He published many papers on 

 metallurgical subjects, collaborating with Prof. T. 

 Turner, of Birmingham, and, more recently, with Dr. 

 W. Rosenhain, of the National Physical Laboratory, 

 The latter paj^ers dealt principally with the hypothesis 

 of the existence in metals of an amorphous inter- 

 crystalline cement, and Mr. Ewen's careful experi- 

 mental work did much to establish the theory as a 

 well-based working hypothesis. His death Is to be 

 regretted, not only as that of a cheerful and enthu- 

 siastic personality, but also as a research worker in 

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a field that urgently needs cultivation, and one from 

 whom further important contributions to metallurgical 

 science might well have been expected. 



Capt. W. Loring, of the 2nd Scottish Horse, who 

 died on a hospital ship on October 24, from wounds 

 receive^ at the Dardanelles, had in earlier years done 

 distinguished work in classical archa;ology. After a 

 brilliant career at Eton and Cambridge, he went out in 

 1889 ^s a student of the British School at Athens, and 

 for the three following years remained at the school 

 as Craven student. During that period he took an 

 active part In excavations, notably In those at Megalo- 

 polis, besides undertaking on his own account a com- 

 plete topographical survey of Arcadia. When he settled 

 in London, as an examiner in the Board of Educa- 

 tion, he held for a time the post of secretary to the 

 school at Athens, and it was during this period that 

 he volunteered for service in South Africa, first as a 

 trooper in a yeomanry regiment, and then with a com- 

 mission in the Scottish Horse. He was severely 

 wounded, was twice mentioned In despatches, and re- 

 ceived the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He left the 

 service of the Board, where he had been private secre- 

 tary to Sir John Gorst and Sir William Anson, In order 

 to become director of education under the Education 

 Committee for the West Riding, of Yorkshire, but 

 vacated the post through a difference of opinion with 

 his committee, and about a year later, in 1905, became 

 w^arden of the Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, a post 

 he held until his death. He had always kept in touch 

 with the Scottish Horse, and when the present war 

 broke out he at once rejoined the colours, and after a 

 year's training in England went out to the Dardan- 

 elles with the regiment in August last. In Capt. 

 Loring the country has lost a man of real ability, 

 of remarkable force of character, and single-hearted 

 devotion to duty. 



With the passing away of Prof. James McCall, 

 principal of the Glasgow Veterinary College, on 

 November i, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, 

 veterinary science has lost one of Its greatest and 

 most highly esteemed exponents. Educated at 

 Wallacetown and Ayr Academies, he was intended for 

 the legal profession, but that work did not prove 

 congenial. Consequently he soon deserted it, and 

 enrolled as a student at the Dick Veterinary College, 

 Edinburgh, where fie qualified as a member of the 

 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons In i860, and 

 afterwards obtained his fellowship in 1877. His en- 

 thusiasm for the progress of veterinary science enabled 

 him to overcome opposition on the part of existing 

 veterinary colleges when he applied for a charter for 

 the establishment of the Veterinary College of Glas- 

 gow In 1862. The charter was, however, granted 

 and signed by the late Queen Victoria in 1863. From 

 that time the college has steadily progressed, and has 

 been transformed from a private to a public incor- 

 porated institution, approved and supported by the 

 Scotch Education Department, the powers of which 

 have now been transferred to the Board of Agricul- 

 ture for Scotland. The alumni of the institution in- 

 clude some of the most notable exponents of veterinary 

 science, both in the British Isles and the Colonies, 



