Readers of this Magazine will have already heard with* death of Sir Horaee Darwin. The many tributes which have been paid him ^ the Press show very clearly that the scientific world has suffe He was, of course, best known as the inventor of Scientific as a Founder and Chairman of the Cambridge Scienti ic ns t- part jn His interest extended beyond Science, however, an ie ?? . the War the local government of Cambridge and in University po 1 ics. ? , nf tue he served on an Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, was ma e ai Air Inventions Committee, and later received a K.B.E. in recognition services.
He was also much interested in work for mentally deficient childrei helped to establish at Girton the well-known Littleton House, a scioo defective boys. With Lady Darwin and in conjunction with Mrs. lmsent, e endowed a studentship in the University of Cambridge for the study ot menta diseases. This Association will always remember with gratitude, the he p anc advice he gave so willingly in its early days and his very generous support up to the time of his death.