24 OCTOBER 1925, Page 3

By the death of Professor Maxwell Lefroy through inhaling poisonous

gases in the course of his researches we have lost a most valuable scientist. After a very promising career at Cambridge he put his entomological knowledge at the service of the public in fighting pestiferous insects at home, in India and during the War in Meso- potamia. The achievements of his comparatively short life were great.. He was the true heroic enthusiast. While apparently reckless, in spite of more than one serious warning, of the dangers to which lie exposed himself in his experiments with deadly poisons, he had in fact a juster knowledge of them than anyone else, as was proved by the care he took that no one except himself should be exposed to them.

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