The death has occurred of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventer of the telephone, at the age of 75 years.—Reuter, By the death of Dr, Graham Bell, science loses a figure of world wide fame, the nature of his studies and achievements being essentially practical and of kind to strike the popular imagination. Dr. Bell, a doctor of science, literature and medicine, was born Edinburgh in 1847 and was educated at the Royal High School and Edinburgh University, proceeding to University College, London, where he matriculated in 1867. Three years later he proceeded to Canada, and afterwards went to Boston University as Professor of Physiology. The mechanism of speech. was one of his special studies, and his researches in this direction doubtless put him on the track of two inventions which made his name famous. Within six years of his appointment at Boston he had. taken out the first patent for a telephone, to be followed by the photophone and (in conjunction with C. A. Bell and Sumner Tainter) the graphophone, the prototype of the modern gramophone. Dr. Bell's scientific activity ies were very extensive, and he produced a number of learned and valuable works which gained for him distinctions from the leading scientific bodies on both continents. He was particularly interested in the study of deafness, and one of his most interesting works was a memoir on *The Formation of a Deaf Variety in the Human Race." He was instrumental in introducing many valuable innovations in the training of the deaf.—Ed.
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