ive work on actuarial subjects.

Sir John Isaac #THORNYCROFT# (b. 1843), LL.D., F.R.S.,
Vice-President of Inst. of Naval Architecture, etc.; founded
shipbuilding works at Chiswick, 1866; introduced improvements in
naval architecture and marine engineering, which have promoted
high speeds at sea.--["Who's Who."]

_me fa_, John FRANCIS (1780-1861), sculptor, pupil of Chantrey;
exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1820-1856; his works include busts of
Miss Horatio Nelson, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and the Duke of
Wellington.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa_, Thomas THORNYCROFT (1815-1885), sculptor; executed the group of
Commerce on the Albert Memorial, and other statues.--["Dict. N.
Biog."]

_me_, Mary THORNYCROFT (1814-1895), sculptor.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_bro_, William Hamo THORNYCROFT (b. 1850), R.A., sculptor. His
works include national monument to General Gordon in Trafalgar Square
and in Melbourne; John Bright in Rochdale; Lord Granville in Houses
of Parliament; and very many others.--["Who's Who."]

Charles Sissmore #TOMES# (b. 1846), F.R.S., late lecturer on dental
anatomy at Dental Hosp. of London; Crown nominee on General
Medical Council, 1898, etc.; author of a "Manual of Dental
Anatomy, Human and Comparative," and of many memoirs on
odontology in "Phil. Trans.," etc.--["Who's Who."]

_fa_, Sir John TOMES (1815-1895), F.R.S., dental surgeon; invented
dental forceps; memoirs on histology of bone and teeth; delivered
lectures at Middlesex Hosp., which marked new era in dentistry;
induced Royal Coll. of Surgeons to grant license in dental surgery;
one of the chief founders of the Odontological Soc., 1856, and of the
Dental Hosp., 1858; secured passing of Dentists Act, 1878; wrote
well-known treatise on "Dental Surgery," and other works.--["Dict. N.
Biog."]

_fa bro_, Robert Fisher TOMES (1824-1904), authority on insectivora
and chiroptera; edited Bell's "British Quadrupeds"; wrote natural
history sections for his own and neighbouring county histories.

_me bro_, George SIBLEY, C.E.I., went out to India as a civil
engineer, and without influence rose to be chief engineer of the East
Indian Railways, and did much important work in bridge-building.

James William Helenus #TRAIL# (b. 1851), F.R.S., Regius Professor
of Botany, University of Aberdeen, since 1877; naturalist of an
exploring expedition in N. Brazil, 1873-1875; has been largely
occupied in the