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WE regret to have to record the death, at the early age of forty-one, of Mr. J. B. Carruthers, assistant director of agriculture in Trinidad. Mr.Carruthers only took up his new appointment last autumn, and with characteristic enthusiasm entered at once very energetically upon the task of making himself familiar with his fresh surroundings. The possibilities of rubber cultivation was the principal subject to occupy his attention, and to this end he visited most of the chief estates in Trinidad. Thence he proceeded to Tobago—the dependency of the larger island—and here prosecuted his work under very adverse climatic conditions, with the result that on returning to Trinidad he was prostrated with a severe attack of malaria. After some four weeks' illness complications ensued, and he passed away on Sunday, July 17, from septic pneumonia following an operation.
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John B. Carruthers . Nature 84, 114–115 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084114a0
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