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public health, as Medical Officer of Birkenhead he was responsible for 
many improvements affecting the health of the borough. He revolutionised 
the system of sewer ventilation in the town, and was instrumental in 
securing the substitution of setts for the round boulders with which 
many years ago several thoroughfares were paved. He leaves a widow 
and daughter. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1880, 
and died of pneumonia on March 8, 1919. 
Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, Bart., was born in 1846 at Alloa, 
where he received his early education, proceeding afterwards to the 
Edinburgh Institution. After a business training of four years he 
established, along with his brothers, the firm of Messrs Mitchell- 
Thomson & Co., timber merchants, Granton, Edinburgh. In 1890 he 
entered the Town Council of Edinburgh, in the affairs of which he took a 
prominent part, devoting himself with keen energy and public spirit to all 
questions connected with the welfare of the city. He served as Lord 
Provost from 1897 to 1900, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh in 1899. In 1900 he was created a Baronet, and was also a 
Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He died in 
Edinburgh on November 15, 1918. 
Frederick Phillips, M.Sc., was born in 1879 at Woolwich, where he 
was educated, and in due course entered the Woolwich Arsenal in the 
Engineering Department. He determined, however, to follow the teaching 
profession, and after gaining a King’s Scholarship at Peckham Pupil 
Teachers’ School, he entered Boro Road Training College, Isleworth, and 
subsequently attended the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. 
He graduated M.Sc. in 1917, and after a year and a half spent as Chemistry 
Master in Ilford Secondary School he was appointed Lecturer in Pure 
and Applied Mathematics in University College, Southampton. He was a 
skilled mechanic and engineer, and was much interested in wireless 
telegraphy. During the war he carried out important investigations in 
the tracking of aeroplanes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh in 1917, and died at Southampton on October 14, 1918. 
Sir Boverton Redwood, Bt., D.Sc. (Hon.), F.IC., F.C.S., A.Inst.C.E., 
was born in London, April 26, 1846, and was educated at the University 
College School. He was trained as a pharmaceutical chemist, but turned 
his attention early to the production and use of petroleum. From 1886, 
