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IT has already been announced in NATURE that the Crown authorities have appointed Prof. James Thomson, C.E., LL.D., to succeed the late Prof. W. J. M. Rankine in the Glasgow Chair of Engineering and Mechanics; and as that gentleman has been deemed worthy to occupy the Chair that was long filled by a man of world-wide eminence, it may not be undesirable to give a brief sketch of his professional and scientific career.
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MAYER, J. The New Professor of Engineering at Glasgow . Nature 8, 49 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008049a0
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