The death of Mr. Hubert Liston Willcox, of Warminster, at the early age of 36, occurred on Dec. 3rd, and was due to blood poisoning, resulting from a finger being scratched while assisting at an operation for acute peritonitis. He was educated at King's College Hospital, London, and took the qualifications of L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. in 1901. For the untimely loss of his son under such singularly ...

We are sharpemng a resuit of Bramble and Scott concemmg optimal approximation simultaneously m different norms in the case of a Hubert scale We show that in some very weak norm the error ofthe best approximation decays exponentially Thisfact imphes optimal approximation simultaneously in négative norms oj any order ofthe Hubert scale