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Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; in London.
Died. Rt. Rev. Richard Henry Nelson, 71, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y.; in Albany.
Died. Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, 74, president of the American Philosophical Society (oldest U. S. scientific association, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin), discoverer of the painful fatty disease adiposis dolorosa, an eminent neurologist; of heart disease; in Philadelphia, as he was sitting in Franklin's "ladder-chair"* and about to open the Society's most ambitious program, a survey, by three dozen speakers, of the current world.
Died. Charles Augustus Peabody, 82, real estate law authority, onetime (1906-27) president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, control of which he won after a prolonged, bitter fight with the late Stuyvesant Fish; in Manhattan.
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged $952,500.
Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced."
*Ingenious Franklin built a stepladder into his leather library chair, whereby he could reach his highest book shelves. Another precious chair of the Society is the Windsor chair to which Thomas Jefferson fitted a writing board and in which he drafted the Declaration of Independence.