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ANOTHER of the captains in.the phalanx of British geologists has dropped from the ranks. Robert Harkness died suddenly in Dublin on Saturday last. He had been ailing for some time, and the disease from which he suffered—an affection of the heart—had gained ground so much this year that he lately felt himself compelled to resign the chair of geology at Cork. It was the expectation of his friends that, released from duties which he had so long conscientiously performed, he might yet enjoy some years of comparative health in the quiet retirement of his Cumberland home, to which he used to return with such pleasure every summer. But this was not to be. He has fallen just as he had himself brought the public labours of his life to a close.
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G., A. ROBERT HARKNESS, F.R.S. . Nature 18, 628 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018628a0
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