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DEATHS IN LONDON

Sir Henry Wellcome

INVENTOR OF "TABLOIDS

London, July 17. Sir Herry Wellcome, D.Sc., F.RS., who died in Lendon DA Saturday at the age of 82 after an operation, was known in name to every one who has had occa- slom to take his drugs In the tabloid form

Whitch has ousted the bottle of physie and the pil prescribed by former generations

of doctors.

Born in Wisconsin, United States, the sor of the Rev. S. P. Wellcome, he spent his early child- hood in the midst of the Dakota Indian tribes. He attended the 'schools of the frontier, including one which was held L a typical Western log school house. As a youth he was in the midst of the great Sioux Indian War in Min- nesota, when more than a thou-

One of the Arst civilians to enter the Sudan after it had been recaptured by General Garden. Wellcome then saw for himself and studied" for some time the unhealthy cimatic conditions of the country. In 1900 he founded the Wellcome Tropical Research with Laboratories in tonnexion

the Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum. He placed the labora- tories in charge of Sir Andrew Balfour, and attached a floating research laboratory which cruised through the waterways of the Nile and its tributaries in the Sudan. Some years later he gave great help in securing the founda- tion of the Gorgas Tropical Re searen Laboratories

the Panama Canal, which were main- tained as a memorial to Surgeon-

sand whites were massacred. HeGeneral Gorgas, of the United

was made capta'n 'b/ the boys

States Medical Service, A great whose appointed duty was to cust pioneer in tropical hygiene. Well- ride bullets for the defence of the come also founded at different settlement and actively assisted times the Lady Stanley Maternity his uncle-a famous surgeon-in Hospital, a medical hospital and treating the wounded. Having at dispensary at Uganda, and a fund which he placed under the control an early age chosen chemistry and pharmacy as his career, he studi- of the Medical Missionary Asso- ed these and cognate subjects in

ciation to translate into Chinese Chicago and Philadelphia, and. the various medical, surgical, and shortly after taking his diploma chemical text-books required by at the latter city went to New native students who were belag Nork where his strong bent to- educated on the lines of European wards literary activity was shown medicine. During the War he by various articles contributed to constructed, equipped, and suppli- the scientific journals. He visited ed to the British Army Medical most parts of the North American Service a chemical and bacterio- Continent. and Anally South logical motor Zeld research America, where he studied the laboratory, which was put to good native cinchona (quinine) forests. use in Palestine and Egypt. As Ön his return from South America archaeologist he personally he contributed to selenifcccnducted explorations In the publications the result of his ob- Upper Nile in 1901 and in 1910. servations. Attracted by the idea They revealed some Ethiopian of London as an ideal manufac-sites which had not been previous- turing and distributing centre forly known. chemical industries, he decided to make England, the land of his ancestors, his future home; and, in conjunction with the late Mr. S. M. Burroughs, established the Arm of Burroughs Welcome and Co., manufacturers of fine chem!- cals, alkaloids, and pharmaceuti cal products

A man of great business ability. the business he founded in London In 1880 Increased with extraordin- ary, rapidity, and now his works. offices, and warehouses, most of the great centres of commercial activity throughout the world. The firm was among the first to take advantage of the improve- ments in machinery. It was thus able to supply pure drugs in" a solid and compressed form. These drags were sold under the regis tered name of "Tabloids," a term so convenient that it soon came into common use as a part of the English language to denote any- thing compressed and consoli- dated. It had, however, a stormy passage. for it began to be used by other manufacturers and it was not until March 14, 1884, that the Court of Appeal decided that it could only be used by Messrs.

Wellcome. Burroughs and

Mr. Burroughs after some time ceased to take part in the business, and Mr. Wellcome became the sole partner until in 1913 it became the Wellcome foundation with Wellcome as the governing direc- tor.

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Personally Wellcome Was quiet, reticent, and almost shy man slightly above middle height. clean shaven, alert, and quickly brightening up when he became Interested in some topic of con- versation. He married a daughter of Dr. Barnardo, the founder of Barnardo's 'Homes, and had one son. Generous and often Javish In supporting projects which ap- pealed to him, Wellcome was al- ways insistent that his light should not be hidden and that the name of Wellcome should always be prominent The Wellcome Medical Museum" was perhaps nearest to his heart after his bust-

ness

It is a wonderful collection

of anthropology. medical ap-.

plances, coins, pictures, statuary, and books, Too, little known." to Londoners because until lately it was housed in Wigmore street, it will be more visited now that it 1s suitably placed in the Euston Road building.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936.

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SHAKESPEARE HAN MULBERRY TREE: SHAW GIFTS ONE

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Mr. George Bernard Shaw plant- ed a mulberry tree in Priory Park, Malvern, yesterday.

"Shakespeare had a mulberry tree." he said. "and I am not go- ing to be outdone by Shakespeare, The attraction of the tree is that It lasts so long. I cannot last for ever. (A Volce-"Shame.")

"I have had only 80 years, which appears almost as a moment of time, and we want something that lasts longer.

"There is

which will last even longer than one thing. I hope:

this mulberry tree, and that is the Malvern Festival" "

Str Barry Jackson said he hoped that the fruit of the tree might be as refreshing to many as the fruft of Mr. Shaw's works had been.

and in India for the purpose of making pictures of the tour. He illustrated the Prince of Wales's Eastern Book, and he had also done illustrations for Belloc, Hardy, and Kipling

In

addition to drawing and painting, he wrote a large num- ber of travel and topographical books, among which were "A De- tective In Kent." "A Detective in SILITES," "A Detective in Essex." and books on unknown Bussex, Surrey, Essex. Suffolk. Norfolk, Dorset, and Somerset. His volumes were gossipy books of

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Shanghai, Aug, 12. Back in Shanghai mice more after an absence of a little over four months, the mv. Tricolor. which caught are in the Pacific As a result of the smuggling of, las: April 6, is now moored at buoys, 12 and 13, down the river and on artificial silk, more than seventy silk stores and shops here have Thursday will sal" for Hamburg closed during the past few months, and Oslo. She la none the worke A novel method now employed by for her experience with Are, and officers on board the vessel yester- smugglers is to and their contre- band goods at Chikou, on the coast day sald that she was still capable and convey them from there to the of coing her sixteen knots.

· Interior in trücks̟or mule-carts. The Last April 6, en route

to Sam from Yokohama with Customs patrol boats cannot reach Francisco Chikou, as the water is extremely | thirteen passengers on board, two

As a counter-measure, shallow.

of whom were from Shanghai, the the Customs is establishing a num-Tricolor caught dre in the holds. ber of barriers at strategic points The passengers were transferted to along the highways, to check the the Vacuum Oll tanker Yaraville. illicit transport.- Central News,

distinguishing himself. He served from 1900 to 1902, was twice men- tioned in dispatches and gained, the Queen's meal with four clasps and the King's" Medal with two clasps. He was also made a C.B. In 1911 he was appointed to be Inspector of Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery in

India.

| Having already spent 10 years on the staff in India and three at the War Office, he was particularly well qualified to All the post. Shortly after taking up his new duties he was appointed A.D.C. to King George V, and which te continued to be until 1915. In the

'which at first found difficulty in effecting the rescue owing to dark- ness and the heavy seas that were running at that time. The 45 mem- bers of the crew remained on board the ship to fight the flames, and later the Tricolor proceeded to Ho- nolulu with the fire under control.

The ship now has changed her Itinerary. Formerly she sailed from New York. to Manlia via Panama and Los Angeles proceeding thence o Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, San Francisco, and so back to New York again. Her present trip is trom New York to Oslo via Panama, Asia, and Suez, and she is picking up cargo along the way.

rambles, illustrated by pleasing Great War he served from 1914 WORLD SCIENTISTS

drawings, and written with, infec- tious enthusiasm They were just the books for a winter's evening when the curtains were drawn and the fog stilt out. In his books "A Dweller in Mesopotamia: being the Adventures of an Omelal Artist in the Garden of Eden," he "caught and prisoned the Tigris's lights, the sun's glare at Baghdad, and the dust of the river banks." He was at his best in that book in his deft painting of the sunrise and sunset of that flat land. The book was, one of grave memories for those who went through the campaign and brought back mind the long, sultry, homesick days of flies, the Infinity of desert, and the War, which seemed then ane which would never end." "The Last Crusade, 1914-1918" was an- other of his book dealing with the War in the Near East..

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In October, 1934, he gave an

at Interesting exhibition Maid- stone of Kentish pictures, the basis of which was a series of 50 pictorial tiles representing what the artist termed the "new Dooms day Book of Kent." The object was to depict modern Kert King George bad tiles No. 1 and No. 2, and showing views of Yaling Westerham, and Queen Mary ac- of Allington cepted tile No. 3 Castle. Maxwell also gave a series on the lost of broadcast talks rivers of London and on nautical Landon. A number of churches had altar pieces by him, among

and

which

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Garrison Church. an LL.D. of the

1" He married Fanny Eveline Marle Morgan and had two daughters, The funeral will take place to- morrow at East Farleigh at 3 pm.

Many honours came to him from many different sources. He was knighted in 1932, and he received the Legion of Honour. In addition to being D.Sc. FRS; he was | University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society, an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Burgeons of England, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1865 he was awarded the medal of the Royal Humane Society for life-saving

MR. DONALD MAXWELL

Artist And Author

Mr. Donald Maxwell FRAA, the artist and author, died an Goddington, near Harrietsham, on Saturday. A painter in oils and water-colour, chiefly of marine and landscape subjects, he had been for 30 years an exhibitor at the Royal Academy". As a land- scape draughtsman Maxwell had a clear and simple style seen to ad- vantage in the posters designed for the Southern Railway.

MAJÖR GEN. SIR FREDERIC MERCER

Late Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery

Major-General Sir Frederic Mer- cer, lately Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, died suddenly at Camberley on-Saturday, at the age of 78.

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Harvey Frederic Mercer, who "was born on July 2, 1858, was the son of the late Colonel W. E. Mercer. Educated in Jersey and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he entered the Army in 1877, becoming captain in 1885, major in 1895, brevet-colonel in 1905, substantive colonel in 1907. and major-general in 1915.

Wellcome employed his large income to further the many pro- fects which interested him, for he was a man of great versatility and of wide outlook. He contributed much to the advance of tropical medicine; he was an anthropolo gist, à Beld archaeologist, a buyer of books, and a collector on large scale. Being practica), be preferred experiment to theory. He was not content to supply pure drugs in his business, but he wished to know why they acted and how they could be put to the best use. For this purpose he founded in 1894 a physiological research laboratory at Beckenham, a chemical research laboratory in 1898, a medical research museum Donald Maxwell, who was born to include tropical medicine and

in London in 1677, was the son of

In 1880 Frederic Charles Maxwell. hygiene with anthropology in 1913, Dr. and an entomological field re- LLD., and was educated at Manor search centre at Claremont in House School, Clapham Common 1915. These laboratories were His art training was' received at placed in charge of men highly South Kensington and the Blade skilled in their own departments School For 20 years he was 'nayak and much experimental work of artist correspondent to the "Gra- great scientific value, emanated phic" During the War he served from them. He soon found that as a fileutenant, R.N.V.R., and was the different institutions were too appointed officim artist to the widely scattered. and in 1930 he Admiralty. He went to Palestine built the Wellcome Research In- and Mesopotamia on duty, and as stitution, a fine building at the a result there are about 100 pic corner of the Easton Road and tures and sketches of his in the Gordon Street,, It was opened Imperial War Museum. The

befitting pereniony

Maxwell was chosen to accom- November 25, 1931, and there they pany the King (the Prince of are all housed under one roof.

Wales) on his tour in the Renown.

with

400.

In the course of his long career. he saw a great deal of active ser- vice. He serve in the Afghan War and took part in the march to the relief of Kandahar, receiving the medal with clasp and the bronse decoration In 1886 and 1887 he was with the Burmah Expedition, for which he gained the medal and clasp and a mention in dispatches Again in 1888 he was mentioned in dis- patches and got the clasp for his part in the Hazara operations; and in 1897, for his service on the North-West Frontier with the Tirah Expeditionary Force, he ob tained another meation and the medal with two claspar o

The South African War provided him" with "further opportunities

to 1918, gaining the Mons Star and the British War -and Victory medals. During those years his services were mentioned five times In dispatches, and he was in 1918 created K.G.M.G.

In 1891 he married Helen Evelyn, only daughter of the late Lieutenant-General C. E. Nairna.

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is anticipated that Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips, now Deputy Secretary, will be appointed as Mr. Jones's succes-

sor.

Mr. Jones, who is at present ab- sent on holiday, it is further un- derstood, will join a local firm.

Mr. Jones came to China in Octo- ber, 1924, and joined the law Arm

Leaves Public Service of Messrs. Teesdale, Newman &

To Join Local

Law Firm

BEGAN COUNCIL CAREER ON MAY 1, 1928

McDonald, now Teesdale, Newman & Co. He entered the Council's service on May 1, 1928, as Deputy Secretary, whèn Mr. 8. M. Edwards, Secretary, left for England. Ho was subsequently. promoted to the office of Secretary. Before he joined

Mr. Kamsay MacDonald opened Du July 25 the second internation-

the S.M.C. he had been president al Congress for Microbiology and

of St. David's Society for two suc- cessive years and also for two years the study of microorganisms, at

Shanghai. Aug. 12.

he was secretary of the Royal Asia- University College, Landoz.

"It is understood that Mr. J. R.tic Society. North China Branch, Nearly a thousand scientists, all She died in 1919.

Jones has resigned his appoint- | During the Great War he saw 'ser- There will be a service in Frim-specialists in the study of bacteria. mens as Becretary of the Shang-vice as an officer in the R.F.A. in ley Church on Wednesday at 3.15 viruses, and their effects on dis- hal Municipal Council, which has France from 1915 to 1918 and was p.m The funeral will take place case and agriculture, gathered in accepted the resignation with re- wounded several times, mentioned privately at Minehead of Thurs- the great hall. They represented gret. An official announcement is in despatches and decorated.- day.

forty nations,

expected to be made shortly. It (N.C.D.N.).

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