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Louis Compton Miall was a biologist ; a naturalist in the old sense of the 

 word. He did good and lasting zoological research. He was one of a group, 

 few in number but strong in personality and influence, who laid the foundation 

 of the existing University of Leeds. He was an enthusiastic educationalist, 

 and appreciated highly the calling and the opportunities of the primary 

 school-teacher ; he helped that calling in many ways. He himself was a 

 strikingly successful teacher. Those who knew him will recall how he 

 studied teaching as an art, and loved it for its own sake. 



Dying at Oxford a little later in the year than Prof. Odling, Kobert 

 Bellamy Clifton had been Professor of Experimental Philosophy there 

 from 1865 until 1917. His first duty for his Chair had been the super- 

 intendence of the erection of the laboratory, the Clarendon Laboratory, of 

 which Sir Eichard Glazebrook writes in his obituary notice of Clifton : " it 

 was the first built in Europe for the special purpose of experimental 

 instruction in Physics." The fittings and teaching apparatus were largely to 

 Prof. Clifton's designs, and he gave much time and thought to their con- 

 struction, perfecting and re-perfecting them in detail. So strict a custodian 

 of them did he become that it was sometimes humorously said they had 

 become too precious to be very accessible for their original purpose. How- 

 ever that may be, under his hospitality the laboratory he had erected gave 

 a home to a great piece of experimentation in Prof. Boys' determination of the 

 gravitation-constant. Clifton was a man of genial personality, of much con- 

 versational gift, shrewd and humorous, and of a nature full of kindly qualities. 



William Eeinold was Professor of Physics in the Eoyal Naval College. 

 He had been Demonstrator under Clifton in the Clarendon Laboratory. 

 It was during his long activity at the Eoyal Naval College, and as a teacher 

 there, that his main scientific life-work was accomplished. 



In March last died suddenly Lord Moulton of Bank. Not an actual 

 investigator in Science, he was yet a very real servant to the cause of 

 scientific progress in this country. He possessed remarkable power of 

 acquisition of knowledge, seizing rapidly and broadly the lines of advance 

 taken by knowledge. A facile expositor of scientific themes to a lay or 

 semi-lay audience, and gifted with an enthusiasm that never failed, he 

 promoted the public appreciation of scientific work. Foreseeing from the 

 outset of the War the magnitude of the strain that it would involve, he 

 had the courage to demand a mobilisation of scientific resources adequate 

 to that strain. The country owed much to his insistence and unsparing- 

 effort. His was a virile persuasion. After the coming of the Armistice, he 

 ■ turned his energies and influence toward urging a more thorough liaison 

 between science and the industry of the country. 



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