Alexander M. Bell

Alexander Melville Bell, educator, author, and scientist, died on the morning of August 7, 1905, at the advanced age of eighty-six years, five months, and six days. He had been ill some months, and following an operation he was removed from his summer home at Colonial Beach, Virginia, to the residence of his son, Alexander Graham Bell, in the city of Washington, where he passed away.

The funeral was on the afternoon of August 9, the services being largely attended by citizens of Washington as well as by friends from distant points. Professor Bell was a life member of the American Association, and attended and took active part in the Second Summer Meeting of the Association held at Lake George.

While never himself a teacher of the Deaf, his studies in vocal physiology and phonetics led him to devise the ingenious system of Visible Speech that has contributed more to the advancement of the instruction of the Deaf by oral methods and to the making of such instruction a true science than probably any other one thing. An extended biographical sketch of Professor Bell is in preparation for a future number of the Review.  F.W.B.