BEILBY, SIR GEORGE THOMAS British chemist, was born in Edinburgh Nov. 17 185o and educated at the university there. He joined the Oakbank Oil Company in 1869, and later became a director of the Cassel Cyanide Company, the Castner-Kellner Alkali Co., and many other important under takings. He invented a new process for retorting oil shale, a new synthetic method of manufacturing alkaline cyanides, and also carried out much important work on the economical use of fuel, establishing the Fuel Research station at East Greenwich shortly before his death. Having served on several commissions and assisted the Government in an advisory capacity on many occa sions, he was elected F.R.S. in 1906, and was knighted in 1916. He held office in many scientific societies, and was the author of a book on The Aggregation and Flow of Solids (1921) and of numerous papers on chemical and metallurgical subjects. He died at Hampstead, London, on Aug. 1 1924.