SOPWITH, THOMAS OCTAVE

MURDOCH (1887), Eng. aviator; won the de Forest prize in 1910 for the longest flight from England in a Brit. machine, by flying from Dover to Beaumont (Belgium), distance of 176 m; founder of the Sopwith Aviation Co., for the construction of aeroplanes. and seaplanes. Caserta, Italy, on Liris; cathedral; manufactures paper; an ancient Volscian town; taken fy the Romans and (modern Monte Sant’? Cresie), mountain, Etruria; sacred to Apollo. physician; practiced med. at Alexandria and later at Rome; his treatises on Fractures and Diseases of Women and a Latin trans. of his Acute and Chronic Diseases are extant, while his biography of Hippo crates is the only extant authority for the life of the latter. town, Brandenburg, Pru ia; manufactures textiles. Pop. 20,000.