"EDWARD ALFRED MINCHIN (1866-1915), English biologist, was born at Weston-super-Mare in 1866, and educated at Westward-Ho and Keble College, Oxford. He became a fellow of Merton College in 1893, and Radcliffe travelling fellow the same year. From 1890 to 1899 he was demonstrator of comparative anatomy at Oxford, and from 1899 to 1906 he held a similar chair at University College, London, being next elected professor of proto-zoology to the university of London. He published several works on the protozoa, especially sponges ( see 25.716), and translated Biitschli's Protoplasm in 1894. He died at Selsey, Sussex, Sept. 30 1915.