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DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS, whose death we recorded last week, was born in London in February, 1817. After his school-time, spent partly at University College School, but chiefly in France and Germany, at St. Omer, Cravelt, and Gera, he studied for a short time at University College, London (then known as the University of London), whence he proceeded to the University of Berlin and subsequently to Giessen, where Liebig was then at the height of his scientific activity. Here he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1842. His long residence abroad, supplemented by frequent subsequent journeys, many of them on foot, gave him an accurate knowledge of French and German, and enabled him to become personally acquainted with a very large number of,the leading men of science on the Continent.
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Dr. W. Francis . Nature 69, 326 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069326a0
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