Professor Henry Edmund Sawyer of Washington, D. C., died in Randolph, Vt., on September 22. He was born on July 14, 1836, in Warner, Vt. Before the war he was principal of the Concord High School, and later became superintendent of the high school for boys at Middletown, Conn., and also of the Mt. Hermon School, Northfield. In. 1893, after two years' travel in Europe, he became professor of Biblical and ethical science in Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss. Since 1895 he has resided in Washington, D. C.