1919-20.] 
Obituaries. 
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when he delivered the Cantor Lectures on Petroleum and its Products, he 
was prominent in all public questions regarding petroleum and connected 
subjects, was the author of many articles and books relating to the 
subject, and served on several important Commissions. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1889, 
and was also a member of many other societies in pure and applied science. 
He was knighted in 1905, and died on June 4, 1919. 
Edwin O. Sachs, Architect, A.Inst.M.E., F. R.G.S., was born in London 
on April 5, 1870. He was Chairman of the British Fire Prevention 
Committee, which he founded in 1897. The first fire-testing station 
established in Europe was also founded by him in 1899. He organised the 
International Fire Prevention Congress in London in 1903, as also the 
Special Fire Survey Force in connection with the war, acting himself as its 
commissioner. He was Vice-President of the International Fire Service 
Council and Hon. Member of the Imperial Russian Society of Architects. 
Many foreign countries bestowed their honours upon him, such as France, 
Italy, Belgium, and Russia, and France also made him an Officier 
d’Academie. He was the author of numerous articles on Fire and Fire 
Preventions, etc. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1904, 
and died in London on September 9, 1919. 
Sir James Sawyer, Kt., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.S.A., J.P., consulting 
physician to Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, was born at Carlisle on 
August 11, 1844. He was educated at Queen’s College, Birmingham, and 
at London University. In 1875 he became Professor of Pathology in 
Birmingham ; in 1878 Professor of Materia Medica, and in 1885 Professor 
of Medicine. He was an authority on the diseases of the lungs, heart, and 
kidneys, and published many papers in medical periodicals. He was 
knighted in 1885 ; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 
1891, and died on January 27, 1919. 
E. Wynston Waters was a student of medicine in Edinburgh and 
gained his diploma at the Royal College of Surgeons in the early eighties. 
He spent the greater part of his life in South Africa engaged in medical 
practice, and died in 1918 while employed in medical work in the army. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1907. 
( Issued separately January 31, 1920.) 
