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Tue death of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain on July 2, 
at seventy-eight years of age, deprives the nation of 
a statesman who was not only a great political leader 
in the affairs of his country and Empire, but also gave 
notable assistance to the advancement of science and 
education. A few days ago the work done by him 
and his son, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, was com- 
memorated by the unveiling of portraits of them in 
bronze relief in the branch hospital at the Royal Vic- 
toria and Albert Docks connected with the London 
School of Tropical Medicine; and the University of 
Birmingham, of which he was Chancellor, is a suffi- 
cient monument to what he did to promote national 
efficiency through education and research. Mr. Cham- 
berlain began his public work in the city of Birming- 
ham as an educational reformer and took an active 
part in the work of the first School Board there, while 
the University was practically founded. by him. 
Speaking at a meeting of the council last 
week, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Gilbert Barling, said 
that Mr. Chamberlain guided the formation of the 
University and influenced its constitution in the most 
liberal and broad-minded manner. He obtained most 
of the funds for its building and equipment, and took 
the warmest interest in its welfare during the whole 
of his life after its foundation. The council of the 
University has expressed its high appreciation of Mr. 
Chamberlain’s services in this direction by passing 
the following resolution :—‘‘ The council hears with 
profound sorrow of the death of Mr. Joseph Chamber- 
lain, first Chancellor of the University, to whom the 
University owed its existence. His liberal and broad- 
minded views permeated its constitution, his judgment 
guided its policy from the commencement, and by his 
personal effort he secured munificent contributions to 
the funds for the buildings and equipment. The 
Chancellor’s death will be felt by all members of the 
council and Senate, and indeed by the whole of the 
University, as a great personal loss.’’ Few statesmen 
show such zeal for education and science as Mr. Cham- 
berlain did; and we join with representatives of other 
national interests in mourning the loss of one who 
understood so well the business of government of a 
modern State. Mr. Chamberlain was admitted a 
fellow of the Royal Society in 1882, under the rule 
which permits the election of persons who “either 
have rendered conspicuous service to the cause of 
science, or are such that their election would be of 
signal benefit to the society.” 
By the death of Sir Benjamin Stone, on July 2, at 
seventy-six years of age, there has passed from us one 
of the most enthusiastic and energetic of amateur 
photographers. Although photography was his re- 
creation, he made a business of it in the sense of 
always working towards a definite end, namely, the 
getting of pictorial records of the details of the life of 
to-day. He did not initiate what is now well under- 
stood as ‘record work,’ but in 1897, when he was 
sixty years of age, he established the National Photo- 
graphic Record Association, which did excellent work 
for twelve years, when it was disbanded so that the 
work might be carried on more effectively from local 
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centres. During the whole life of the association Sir 
Benjamin Stone was its head, and we believe contri- 
buted personally a greater number than any other 
member of the nearly five thousand prints which are 
now deposited in the British Museum. These photo- 
graphs represent interesting buildings of all kinds, 
remains of ancient buildings, manuscripts, portraits, 
ceremonies, customs, such as coronations, the distribu- 
tion of Maundy money, fairs, and indeed anything 
that is likely to be of interest, especially when it has 
ceased to be. 
Carr. J. F. Parry, R.N., assistant hydrographer, 
has been appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Herbert 
E. P. Cust, C.B., as hydrographer of the Navy from 
August 16 next. x 
_ Tue president and council of the Royal Society have 
awarded the Mackinnon studentship on the biological 
side to Mr. G. Matthai, of Emmanuel College, Cam- 
bridge, for a research on the comparative anatomy of 
the Madreporaria. The studentship on the physical side 
has not yet been awarded, and the date for receiving 
applications has been extended to September 21. 
Pror. J. H. Appleton has retired from the chair of 
chemistry at Brown University, Rhode Island. He 
graduated at that University in 1863, and has ever 
since been a member of its faculty, holding succes- 
sively the status of assistant instructor, instructor, and 
professor. Dr. J. E. Bucher, at present assistant 
professor, is to succeed him in the headship of the 
department of chemistry. 
THE death is reported of Dr. F. W. True, assistant 
secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 
Born in 1858, Dr. True graduated at New York 
University in 1878, and in the same year entered the 
service of the U.S. Government, of the exhibits of which 
he was custodian at the Berlin Fisheries Exhibition 
of 1880. From 1883 to 1911 he held curatorships at 
the National Museum, of which he had _ previously 
been librarian. His publications included ‘‘A Review 
of the Family Delphinide,” ‘‘The Whalebone Whale 
of the Western North Atlantic,’”? and ‘‘An Account of 
the Beaked Whales of the Family Xiphiide.”’ 
Tue Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is informed 
that on May 26 a porpoise was caught in a kettle net 
at Dungeness and transferred to Brighton Aquarium, 
where she arrived in good condition. She was noticed 
to be in an advanced stage of pregnancy when placed 
in a tank, and on the afternoon of May 31 gave birth 
to a young male, which was stillborn. The young 
was perfectly formed, and measured 2 ft. 2 in. in 
length, and weighed approximately 7 Ib. Unfor- 
tunately the mother died on June 1o. 
In the course of excavations to reach the base of 
the Red Crag at Thorington Hall, Wherstead, near 
Ipswich, Mr. Reid Moir has found the skeleton of a 
young female, about seventeen years of age, at a 
depth of 6 ft. from the surface of the ground. The 
Crag at this spot is capped by a hard, compact, loamy 
material, in all probability decalcified Boulder Clay, 
and the bones had been buried in a grave which was 
plainly visible in the loam.. The body, of which nearly 
