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OUR readers will not have been altogether surprised at the announcement of the death of the Director of the Paris Observatory. We have had frequent occasion recently to refer to the unsatisfactory state of M. Le-verrier's health, and only a fortnight since we announced his return to his post. He died, however, on Sunday last at the age of sixty-six years, singularly enough on the thirty-first anniversary of the discovery of Neptune.
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Urban J. J. Leverrier . Nature 16, 453 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016453a0
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