.480 Obituari/ — Edward Eaton Walker, B.A. 



Cheltenham Grammar School, Magdalen College, Oxford, University 

 College, London, and the medical schools in Paris and Lyons. 

 Among the appointments which he filled were those of Professor 

 of Hygiene and Public Health in University College, London, 

 honorary sanitary adviser to University College and Hospital, 

 president of the Epidemiological Society of London, vice-president 

 of the Sanitary Institute, and president of the Society of Medical 

 Officers of Health, In 1866 he was elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society. In 1868 he was appointed examiner for honours 

 in the Natural Science School, Oxford, and he discovered the 

 existence of lithodomous borings in the Aymestry Limestone, and 

 "thus removed to an earlier age than had been previously known 

 the evidence of boring bivalves." He was not only the first 

 professor of hygiene appointed in London, but he started the first 

 hygienic laboratory, which was at University College. For six 

 years he was a member of and reporter for the British Association 

 Committee on the treatment and utilization of sewage, and he 

 originated, in 1891, the meeting of the International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography in London. Among his publications are 

 a " Resume of the History of Hygiene," "Dwelling Houses : their 

 Sanitary Construction and Arrangements," "The Laws of Health," 

 "Disease and Defective House Sanitation," and other works. 



We are indebted for most of the above particulars to the Times of 

 August 27th. 



EDWARD EATON WALKER, B.A., 



GEOLOGIST TO THE EAST AFRICAN PROTECTORATE. 



A MOST promising career has been cut short by the death of 

 Mr. E. E. Walker, on the last day of February, as the result 

 of blood-poisoning. 



Walker was a Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and obtained 

 a first class in Part I of the Natural Science Tripos in 1899, and again 

 in Part II in 1900 : in the latter year he was awarded the Harkness 

 Scholarship. 



He undertook the examination of a group of rocks in the English 

 Lake District, and has left behind an account of the work, which, 

 though incomplete, is in a state suitable for publication. 



Early in 1902 he proceeded to East Africa, having been appointed 

 Geologist to the Protectorate : his letters to his friends proved how 

 keenly he worked there, and how congenial was the life to him. 

 In February of the present year he was at work in the country 

 to the north-east of the Victoria Nyanza, and there he died. 



Walker was an ideal Englishman : able, strong, fearless, and 

 modest, he was beloved by all who met him. Those who attended 

 the " Long Excursion " of the Geologists' Association to Keswick in 

 1900 will remember the unassuming manner in which he explained 

 a piece of work which he had done in the Langstrath Valley. 

 His " Reports on the Geology of the East Africa Protectorate " have 

 now been published officially. Had he lived he would have been in 

 the front rank of geologists. But it was not to be so : he has died 

 for his country. 



