HONORARY

Alexander Graham Bell, who received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1913, died August 2 at his summer home at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

The son of Alexander Melville and Eliza Grace (Symonds) Bell, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847, and was educated at Edinburgh and London Universities. He came with his family to Brantford, Ontario, in 1870, and the next year was appointed professor of vocal philosophy in Boston University. He soon gave up his college position to devote himself to the researches and experiments which resulted in the invention of the telephone, for which the first patent was granted March 17, 1876. His subsequent career has been closely identified with the development and perfection of this great invention, while he has also been interested in all kinds of scientific research.

He has been the recipient of many honors in this country and abroad. The French government conferred on him the decoration of the Legion of Honor, the French Academy its prize of 50,000 francs, and the Society of Arts in London its Albert Medal. The University of Würzburg made him a Doctor of Philosophy in 1882, the University of Heidelberg a Doctor of Medicine in 1886, Harvard a Doctor of Laws in 1896, and Oxford University a Doctor of Science in 1907.

In 1877 he was married to Mabel, daughter of Gardiner G. Hubbard, Dartmouth 1841, who had given him financial support in his early researches. She survives him, with their two daughters.