Professor SidgwickSource: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Sep., 1900), pp. 497-498Published by: Wiley for the Royal Statistical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2979821 .

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V.-Professor Sidgwick.

WE regret to record the loss of another distinguished Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, in the death, on the 28th Auguist, 1900, of Professor Henry Sidgwick, M.A., late Knightsbridge Pro- fessor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. Failitig health had caused him to resign this official position-to wvhich he had been appointed in the year 1883-in the month of May preceding his death. His connection with the Royal Statistical Society, datinig as it did from the year 1871, was of long standing, and tbough he never served on the Council, or as an Officer of the Society, he marlked his continuing interest in its work by the presentations which he from time to time made to the Library.

It has been remarked that one great characteristic of Professor Sidgwick's work was the fact that he made it his endeavour-to an extent surpassing that of any other economist of the day-to increase knowledge without causing a breach with old traditions.

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498 Miscellanea [Sept.

Referring to this loss which statistical science has sustained, we may qulote some introductory remarks made by Major Craigie on the occasion of the delivery of his Inaugural Address (reproduced earlier in the present issue of the Journal) to the Section of Economic Science and ?Statistics in the British Association at Bradford in September.

Major Craigie remarked that it was due to the memory of a much-esteemed past President of Section F, that he should ask the menmbers present to join with him in a tribute of admira- tion for the life of Professor Sidgwick, and of deep regret at his too early death. Earnest in criticism, perspicuous and exact in definition, his power of acute and balanced definition was as remarlkable as his personality was charming to his friends. His works would long be recognised by students of statistics and of economics as in a wonderful degree helpful and suggestive. At Aberdeen, in 1885, Professor Sidgwick occupied the chair of that section, and it was the speaker's privilege to serve under him as Vice-President on that occasion. The acquaintanceship which he thus formed with Professor Sidgwick from that date ripened into a very intimate friendship oni ma-ny points, and he was sure he was expressing the opinion of all those who were engaged in the kind of work which that Section took in ha-nd, if he placed on record the pleasure and the advantaae they had derived from the valuable co-operation of Professor Sidgwick on many occasions, the appreciation of the wise advice they had received from him, and the admiration of all economic thinkers for the man they had lost. That loss was a very real one to all workers in that depart- ment.

VI.-Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., P.B.S.

THE death of Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., at the ripe age of 86, on the 31st August last, deprives the Royal Statistical Society of a distinguisbed Fellow, whose connection with the Society dates from the year 1874. Sir John Lawes served on the Council in the year 1888, was a donor to the Library, and in 1880, in conjunction with his life-long fellow-worker, Sir Henry Gilbert, F.R.S., read a valuable paper before the Society on the "Home Produce, Import, Consumption, and Price of Wheat over the Harvest Years 1852-53 to 1879-80." This paper, as will be seen by a reference to the forty-third volume of the Journal, was discussed in conjunction with one previously read before the Society by MVlajor Craigie, who, in his recent address to the British Association, deplored "the loss of this veteran in the service of agricultural science and statistics," and remarked " on the munificence with which Sir John established and provided for the endowment of what is probably the most complete establishment for agricultural experiment and investigation in the world." In the year 1872 Sir John announced his intention of placing in trust his laborat6ry and experimental fields, with an endowment of ioo,oool., in order that the work which he had so much advanced might be

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