17 AUGUST 1912, Page 3

We regret to have to record the death, at the

age of 74, of Miss Octavia Hill, one of the best practical philanthropists of our time, who for nearly fifty years laboured effectively to solve the housing problem on the basis of personal service combined with business methods. The week has also been marked by an Alpine tragedy, Dr. H. 0. Jones, F.R.S., Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and his wife having been killed on their honeymoon while ascending the Aiguille Rouge de Peteret on Thursday morning. .Dr. Jones, who was only 35, was one of the most brilliant of our younger chemists, and it is a tragic coincidence that the accident occurred on the same mountain on which Professor Francis Balfour—another dis- tinguished Cambridge man of science—lost his life in 1882.