fa, Sir John TOMES (1815-1895), F.R.S., dental surgeon; invented dental forceps; memoirs on histology of bone and teeth; delivered lectures at Middlesex Hosp., which marked new era in dentistry; induced Royal Coll. of Surgeons to grant license in dental surgery; one of the chief founders of the Odontological Soc., 1856, and of the Dental Hosp., 1858; secured passing of Dentists Act, 1878; wrote well-known treatise on “Dental Surgery,” and other works.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa bro, Robert Fisher TOMES (1824-1904), authority on insectivora and chiroptera; edited Bell’s “British Quadrupeds”; wrote natural history sections for his own and neighbouring county histories.

me bro, George SIBLEY, C.E.I., went out to India as a civil engineer, and without influence rose to be chief engineer of the East Indian Railways, and did much important work in bridge-building.

James William Helenus #TRAIL# (b. 1851), F.R.S., Regius Professor
    of Botany, University of Aberdeen, since 1877; naturalist of an
    exploring expedition in N. Brazil, 1873-1875; has been largely
    occupied in the administrative work of the University and of
    other educational bodies in N. Scotland; has published numerous
    botanical and zoological papers in scientific journals.—­["Who’s
    Who.”]

fa, Samuel TRAIL, LL.D., D.D. (both hon.), obtained Hutton Scholarship in Aberdeen as the most distinguished graduate of his year, 1825; Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1867; Moderator of Church of Scotland, 1874.

me bro, Hercules SCOTT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the King’s Coll. and University, Old Aberdeen, 1820-1860; said to have taken a large part in the administration of the University.

bro, John Arbuthnot TRAIL, LL.D., Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh; prominent in administration connected with the University of Edinburgh, the Church of Scotland, and other public bodies.

me si son, David BROWN, General; formerly Commissioner of Lower Burmah.

John #VENN# (b. 1834), D.Sc., F.R.S., Fellow of Caius Coll.,
    Cambridge; President, 1903; for many years lecturer on Moral
    Philosophy at Cambridge; author of many works on logic, and of “A
    Biographical History of Gonville and Caius Coll.”—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa fa, John VENN (1759-1813), scientific and mechanical interests; one of the first to adopt vaccination, applying it to his own children, and recommending it in the parish of Clapham, where he was rector in 1800; the principal founder of the Church Missionary Soc., 1798, the rules of which he sketched out much as they are still retained.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa, Henry VENN (1796-1873), Wrangler and Fellow of Queens’ Coll., Cambridge; for many years secretary and practically manager of the Church Missionary Soc., the income of which increased under his guidance to over L100,000 per annum; vicar of Drypool, 1827, and of St. John’s, Holloway, London, 1834-1846.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]