Evening star., 1923-08-02
Secretary Hug hes Russian Policy
indicated by the Course of Italv

the first Napoleon. II is rather re-
markable that this princely gift TO
Inc nation of paintings dealing 50 ex-
CiuSiFely with the death and with the
/ childhood of the Founder of Christian
| lty, should have been donated bv one
or the most eminent members of the
Jewish race and creed a man eminent
| IN science, in industry, in art and
chemical research and in Egyptian
exploration. He came BY these gifts
and tastes through Inheritance from
! ms equally remarkable father and
! was brother of Sir Alfred Mond. the
| minister of health and also minister
of public works in the Lloyd George
| coalition cabinet
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Sir John Bland Sutton, who has lust
been elected president Of the ROYAL
CoIIeSe OF Surgeons, that is to say of
| the organization which enjoys the
monopoly OF the issue of licenses TO
practice surgery in England. is recoG-
nized as the most eminent and. as
| surediy, the most popular man of his
| PROFESSION, and has been. in turn
president of the Association of Sur
geonS or Great Britain and Ireland
and president of the Royal Medical
society. His career dates from the
time when he entered the great Mid
| dleseX Hospital. in 1878. as a twenty
| tWo-year-old student, where his ad-
vancement was so rapid that. imme-
-
| qualifying. he was appointed senior
demonStrator Of anatomy and lecturer
on comparative anatomy. He has al
ways retained pronounced interest
In the MiddleseX Hospital and II has
| found expression in his creation OF it's
new museum. known as the Bland
sutton Pathological Institute and to
the foundation of which he con-
trlbuted. out of his own pocket, a sum
of 100000
Curiously enough. he does not re-
strict his study of anatomy TO human
| beings and he has held, for forty
years past, the appointment of path
o!ogist to the Royal Geological So
clety OF England and possesses a well
nigh unriyaled experience of the
anatomy of birds and. especially, of
small mammals. Lecturing, on one
| occasion recently, on comparative
anatomy: he remarked that the frame
of the birds and of small beasts con-
| tanned as many sings and pulleys as
sailing boats" On another occasion
he remarked that the black mark on
the side of the dory is regarded by
! SGperstitious fishermen the world
over as the mark of st. Peters thumb
when he seized the fish and opened
its mouth to find the shekel where
with to pay his tribute. But he dep-
| recates this superstition, pointing out
that the Sea of Galilee is A fresh wa
| ter lake and the dory a sea- water fish
Sir John is still on the sunny side OF
seventy and SO hale and hearty that
he gives the impression of being Al
least ten or fifteen years younger. II
he has a hobby to which he deyotes
his rare leisure 1t is the study of Per-
Sian lore, indeed, everything that con-
| Germs Persia, especially ancient Per-
STA, is, to him, source of fascination
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Those who are interested in gene
I illogical research may like to know
q reward
| that Is to say, something over $780,
| will be paid by Messrs. Hasties &; Co.
| a well known and reputable firm of
| London lawyers OF 65 Lincolns Inn
Fields, for satisfactory evidence of
the marriage of Mary Seymour TO Sir
| Edward Bushell and the marriage of
their daughter Mary to Silas Johnson.
Mary Seymour was the daughter OF
high admiral of England. and OF
Katherine Parr widow of King Henry
! VIII and one of the six queens of this
| bluebeard monarch. Mary Seymour
was born on the Goth of August, 1868,
and after her fathers attainder. on
the charge of high treason and the
| loss of his head by the AK of the ex-
| ecutioner In the Tower of London, she
was eventually restored in blood In
the fourth year of the succeeding
marriage Is referred to in Miss Strick-
lands Lives of the Queens of Eng
land" and Mrs. Dents Annals of
Sudeley" published by the Murrays,
in London, in 1877.
| This advertisement, which has ap-
peared in Mote and Queries" in the
London Times and in other English
newspapers and journals, has aroused
a good deal of activity among anti
quarians and genealogists. and il Ia
said that the documentary evidence or
the marriage is the one thing needed
to complete the establishment of the
claim 10 the peerage of Seymour of
ESudeiey dating from Tudor times,
(which Is today dormant.