OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 7

OBITUARY.

M. PAUL PAINLEVE. PARIS, Oct. 29. Tlie death is announced of M. Paul Painleve, a former Premier of France. Born in Paris in 1863 and educated at the Lycees of St. Louis and St. Louis lo Grand, 1 and at tlie Ecolo Normal® Superieure, M. Painleve, in 1886, became Professor of Science at Lille, and later held appointments at the Sorbonne and the Polytechnic. In 1910 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and became Minister of Education, President of the Council, and President of the Chamber of Deputies. He was Minister of War in M. Poincare’s Cabinet and wa3 responsible for the appointments of Foch and Petain to their posts. Though he became Premier of France, he always held his interest in mathematics, and he wrote some notable philosophic works, and was a member of the Academy. M. Doumerguo defeated him for the office of President of France. DR. LEON CALMETTE. PARIS, Oct. 29. Dr. Leon Charles Albert Calmette, Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge University anil sub-director of the Pasteur Institute at Paris since 1917, is dead. Dr. Calmette’s death followed an operation for an internal complaint. His serum, known as BCG, is claimed to immunise newly-born infants from tuberculosis. Millions of babies in Europe have thus far been treated. German experts declare that the tragedy at Lubeck in August, 1932, in which many German children lost their lives, was not Dr. Calmette’s fault, as the serum cultures had been mixed. Dr. Calmette was born in the same year and died on the same day as M. Painleve. Both had been professors at Lille University. Dr. Calmette was born at Nice 70 yeara ago, and educated at the Lycees of Cler-mont-Ferrand, Brest and St. Louis, Paris. He graduated at Paris as Doctor of Medicine in 1886, and was appointed Honorary Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene at the University of Lille. For a time he was a doctor with the Navy and with the Colonial Troops; later he was founder and first director of the Pasteur Institute at Saigon. Then he became director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille. He held the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and was a member of many learned societies. His serum for the treatment of tuberculosis produced promising results, and he wrote many works dealing with various diseases. REV. ALEXANDER MILLER. "SYDNEY, Oct. 30. The death has occurred of Rev. Alexander Miller, aged 72. He died suddenly at Chatswood. He was late minister of the Presbyterian Church at Westport and Auckland.