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DEEP sympathy will be felt by a large section of the scientific world at the bereavement which Sir Napier Shaw has suffered by the death on September 22 of his wife, Lady Shaw, who was well known in scientific circles. Lady Shaw was for some time lecturer in mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and was the author of an original little book entitled “First Lessons in Observational Geometry,” published by Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. in 1904. In this book, a course of observational and experimental geometry was outlined similar to that afterwards adopted in schools on the recommendations of committees on geometry as the best introduction to the formal study of the subject. Lady Shaw took a very active part in many organisations and institutions concerned with education, science, and progressive development generally. She was a member of council of Queen's College, London, and of the Women's Local Government Society. She served on several committees of the British Association, and was the secretary of the Citizenship Committee which has prepared and issued some valuable reports. Lady Shaw was also a member of Council, the Executive Committee, the Education Committee, and the Health Committee of the British Science Guild, and the members of these bodies, as well as all others associated with her, hold her memory in grateful remembrance.
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Lady Shaw. Nature 112, 482 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112482a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112482a0