Obituary, Sir Horace Darwin K.B.E
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.
Disclaimer
The historical material in this project falls into one of three categories for clearances and permissions:
Material currently under copyright, made available with a Creative Commons license chosen by the publisher.
Material that is in the public domain
Material identified by the Welcome Trust as an Orphan Work, made available with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
While we are in the process of adding metadata to the articles, please check the article at its original source for specific copyrights.