Abstract
AS announced in last week's NATURE (p. 307), Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson, an engineer of distinction, perished in the disaster to H.M.S. Hampshire, on June 5, when accompanying Lord Kitchener as a representative of the Ministry of Munitions with the special rank of Brig-General. He held successively the positions of deputy-director-general, chief mechanical engineer, and chief superintendent of the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich. He was assocated with, and largely responsible for, the great improvements in the power and mechanism of naval and land artillery during the last twenty years. Since the beginning of the war his energies were severely taxed in assisting to meet the demand for an enormously increased supply of munitions of every description, and in augmenting the productive capacity of the Royal Arsenal. Some months ago he was appointed chief technical adviser to the Ministry of Munitions.
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