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PERMIT me to add a few words to Dr. Foster's admirable biographical sketch in the last number of NATURE, and thereby correct a slight error into which he has fallen. He assigns to me the credit of inviting our much-lamented friend to give lectures on animal morphology. It behoves me to say that I have no claim to so much foresight. The proposal, so characteristic of Prof. Balfour's ardent disposition, originated, to the best of my belief, with him, and all I had to do was to place at his service, with the consent of the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, my private room in the New Museums, which I was glad to see turned to so good a purpose, for hitherto but little use had been made of it. The result is sufficiently well known.
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NEWTON, A. The Late Prof. Balfour. Nature 26, 342 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026342b0
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