OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 257, 27 July 1936, Page 9

OBITUARY

Sir Henry Wellcome (Received July 26, 6.30 p.m.) London, July 25. The death has occurred of Sir Henry Wellcome,

Sir Henry Wellcome, scientist and archeologist, was governing director of the Wellcome Foundation, founder of the Wellcome Research Institution, founder and director of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, and founder of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research. At the outbreak of the war he Pla«« the services of the bureau and its statt at the disposal of Government, and it was responsible for much valuable work. Affiliated to the Bureau of Sewntific Research are the foUowing further institutions of the founder The Museum of Medical Science, London, the Physiological Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent; the Chemical Research Laboratories, London, and the Entomological Field Research Laboratories in Surrey. Sir Henry also in IJUO founded the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories and the Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum with an auxiliary floating research laboratory on ‘be Upper Nile and its tributaries. In 1914. he instituted a special commission to improve the design and construction of army ambulances, and also equipped and supplied for the British Army Medical Service a chemical anu bacteriological motor field research laboratory which was used in Palestine and Egypt. Sir Henry also personally eonducted archeological and ethnological explorations in the Upper Nile region of the Sudan, and discovered a number o previously unknown ancient Ethiopian archeological sites. He was a pioneer in aerial photography for exploring am surveying archeological sites. In Uganda ho founded the Wellcome Medical Hospital Dispensary (I'.iOo), an< } Stanley Maternity Hospital (Wi), Mi these being under the control of the Medical Mission of the Church Missionary Society. Another of Sir Henry s workwas to found a Publication Trust l-und. under the control and direction of the Chinese Medical Association, to provide standard medical, surgical, and chemical text-books translated injto Chinese at prices within the reach of native students. Sir Arnold Theiler (Received July 26. 6.30 p.m.) London, July 25. The death has occurred of Sir Arnold Theiler, K.C.M.G., the noted South African veterinary surgeon. Dr. C. C. Gatley (Received July 26. 5.5 p.m.) London, July 25. Dr C C. Gatley. who was Common Law examiner to the University of New Zealand iu 1917, died to-day.