DIED WITH HIM.

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DIED WITH HIM.

PROFESSOR'S SECRETS. \ ' IBT CABLE—PBE63 ASSOCIATION—COmiOHT) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION) (Received April 23rd, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, April $2. Professor Balfour Browne, successor to Professor Lefroy, states that an investigation showß Professor Lefroy's unique collection of mixed chemicals is not helpful. Ho trusted nothing to Written records, therefore hi# secrets died with him, including the secret of tho poison from the effects of which he died.

[Professor Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, M.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., was given the big task of saving the Australian wheat crop from the weevil pest in 1915, and he succeeded after a few weeks' work. He also saved the roof of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, from the depredations of the borer pest. Professor Max-Well-Lefroy was born in 1877. In 1898 he gained the first-class Natural Science Tripos at Oambridge University, and soon after became the entomologist to the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West Indies. From 1903 to 1912 he Was Imperial entomologist for India, and since 1912 he has been Professor of Eatomology of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London. From 1913, Professor Lefroy was honorary curator of the insect house at the London Zoological Gardens, and has served in other similar positions. For some time during the war be was temporary lieutenantCO'onel in the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. .Professor Lefroy has been responsible for numerous publications bt insect life, particularly relating to India and the West Indies. He died of gas-poisoning, being overcome while experimenting in his laboratory.]