OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 9

OBITUARY.

SIR FRANCIS FOX, (M CABLE—SBSSS ASSOCIATHW—<SOM*MBT.> , (AUSTBALIAJT ASD K.Z. cabib AssoownotfJ! , (Received January 9th, 5.8 p.m.) LONDON, January 8., Sir Francis Fox, ( the engineer, .& dead. ; . / [Sir Francis Fox, the well-known * engineer, was born in 1844. He was • appointed by the Federal Government of Switzerland, on the nomination «tn» , ' British .Government, as a member or the committee of three experts on . tunnelling for the construction of'tne Simplon Tunnel. He was the author \ of several publications', "Sixty-Three Years of Engineering Science and Social Work," ing of Winchester Cathedral," "Th«, Simplon Tunnel," and others,.] l PROFESSOR BENNIE. !j (BT CABIX—PSBBB ASSOCUtIO*—OOW3W»S»4 (ATttTBAUAH ASD JUS. OAK* AJSOOttTSW.) (Received January 9th, 5£ p.m.) ADELAIDE, January 9. Mr G. E. Ronnie, Professor of Chemistry, at Adelaide TJniversit- m , dead. [George Edward Rennie, 8.A., M.D., M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S., was a son of the late Mr E. A. Rennie, a former Audi-tor-General of Australia. Before being appointed to his Adelaide position he was lecturer in clinical medicine at the Sydney University. He was an honorary physician to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.]-