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who investigated the cause of capsizing of the Daphne 
in the Clyde in 1883. Sir Edward was one of the 
Lords of the Treasury in Mr. Gladstone’s Govern- 
ment of 1886. 
Sir Edward Reed was elected F.R.S. in 1876. He 
sat upon the council of the Institution of Naval 
Architects from 1863, when he retired from the 
secretaryship, until his death, and upon the council 
of the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1883 to 
1896. He was the recipient of very high Russian, 
Austrian, Japanese, and Turkish honours and decor- 
ations. Among the works published by him are :— 
‘Shipbuilding in Iron and Steel,’’ 1869; ‘* Our Iron- 
clad Ships,’’ 1870; ‘‘ Letters from Russia in 1873’; 
“‘Japan,”? 1880; “‘ The Stability of Ships,” 1884; 
“Modern Ships of War’ (in collaboration with 
Admiral Simpson), 1885; ‘‘ Fort Minster, M.P.,”’ a 
novel, 1885; ‘‘ Corona and other Poems,’’ 1857; and 
‘“Poems,’’ 1902. He was also the author of numerous 
papers in the Transactions of the Institution of Naval 
Architects and other professional institutions, and of 
two important papers, ‘“‘On the Relation of Form 
and Dimensions to Weight and Material in the Con- 
struction of Ironclad Ships,’? which were communi- 
cated to the Royal Society by the late Sir George 
Stokes, and are published in the Philosophical Trans- 
actions of 1868 and 1871. He was also the proprietor 
and editor of the quarterly magazine Naval Science 
from 1872 to 1875, and contributed many articles to 
its pages. ; 
The subject of this imperfect memoir was not 
merely a great naval architect, but a man richly 
endowed by nature with many and varied gifts. He 
was cheerful and sanguine in disposition, with an 
attractive and impressive personality, and unusual 
force and independence of character. He was lucid, 
graceful, and fluent of speech, and one of the ablest 
and most effective speakers and controversialists of 
his time. He long commanded public attention as 
man of science, politician, orator, and author, and in 
the last-named capacity he had the unique distinction 
of earning laurels in fields so far removed from those 
of his severe professional labours as poetry and 
romance. No one was more popular or more 
genuinely admired among his professional brethren 
and children for his great abilities and accomplish- 
ments, and his genial and sociable nature, than the 
late Sir Edward Reed. Francis ELGar. 
NOTES. 
A RevuTER message from Stockholm states that the formal 
distribution of the Nobel prizes took place on Monday 
evening. Prof. Moissan, Prof. Thomson, Prof. Golgi, and 
Prof. Ramon y Cajal each received the prize diploma and 
a gold medal from the King of Sweden in person. Each 
prize this year amounts to 76591. Prof. Thomson’s prize 
is awarded to him for his researches extending over many 
years into the nature of electricity, and Prof. Moissan’s 
for his experiments in the isolation of fluorine, his re- 
searches regarding the nature of that element, and for the 
application of the electric furnace to the service of science. 
Profs. Ramon y Cajal and Golgi are bracketed for the 
medicine prize on account of their works dealing with the 
anatomy of the nervous system. 
Tue Government geologist of South Australia reports 
that the discovery of corundum in the Farina district is 
likely to be one of considerable value. The corundum 
occurs in metamorphic schist, the proportion in the rock 
amounting in places to 10 per cent. to 25 per cent. 
Tue American mail brings the announcement of the 
death, on November 23, of Dr. William H. Chandler, 
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emeritus professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, at 
the age of sixty-five years. Dr. Chandler taught for many 
years in the Columbia School of Mines, and was the author 
| of several important works. 
In an article in the Pall Mall Gazette (December 10) 
with the somewhat sensational title of “‘ The Approaching 
Conquest of Cancer,’’ Dr. Saleeby states that several cases 
of cancer have been cured or much improved by injections 
of trypsin, one of the pancreatic ferments, a method of 
treatment suggested by Dr. Beard, of Edinburgh. Even 
if this be correct, however, it by no means follows that 
cancer is to be conquered in the near future, and the 
premature publication of such details as these in the public 
Press serves no useful purpose. 
Mr. W. R. Buttensuaw, who has been 
assistant on the staff of the Imperial Department of Agri- 
culture for the West Indies during the last four years, has 
been offered the post of botanist in the Agricultural Depart- 
ment of India. He will vacate his present post as soon 
as his successor has been appointed. 
scientific 
Tue annual conversazione and exhibition of new 
apparatus arranged by the British Electrotherapeutic 
Society will be held in the small Queen’s Hall on Friday, 
December 14, from 7.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. The exhibition 
will be open from mid-day. 
We learn from the Chemist and Druggist that a wealthy 
landed proprietor named M. Audrac, who died recently at 
Le Lue, near Draguignan, has left the Pasteur Institute 
the whole of his fortune, valued at the equivalent of 50,000. 
at least. Interviewed on the subject, Dr. Roux, the 
distinguished director of the institute, stated that he had 
received a visit from a lawyer, who informed him that a 
will had been found bequeathing the whole of the pro- 
perty to the institute. The reserve, however, was made 
that another document might possibly come to light making 
various bequests or otherwise disposing of part or whole 
of the property; consequently, Dr. Roux says that some 
time must elapse before the Pasteur Institute can know 
definitely how it stands with regard to the inheritance. 
By the death of Mr. John Ward, of Longton, Staffs, 
British geology has lost one of those quiet, earnest 
workers who, in the midst of their other duties, achieve 
so much for science. Mr. Ward was an original member 
of the North Staffordshire Field Club, and one of the 
most regular and valued contributors to its Transactions. 
In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society 
of London, and in 1898 he was the recipient of an award 
for his work upon the fossil fauna and flora of the North 
Staffordshire Coalfield. As a collector, Mr. Ward was the 
happy possessor of a splendid enthusiasm tempered with 
sound knowledge; a large part of his collection of Coal- 
measure fishes is now in the British Museum (Naturat 
History). While attending to the conduct of his business 
and devoting his spare time to geology, Mr. Ward yet 
found it possible to take a prominent part in the duties 
of citizenship. He will be missed greatly by students of 
Carboniferous faunas, not in this country alone, but by 
his numerous friends abroad. 
Tue following telegram, dated Bombay, November 29, 
has appeared in the public Press:—‘ Dr. von Lecoq, a 
scientific emissary of the Prussian Government, has arrived 
safely at Srinagar after a journey through the most remote 
parts of Central Asia. He has brought with him a 
quantity of highly interesting paintings on stucco, the 
backgrounds in many cases being of gold leaf as in Italian 
