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BY the death of the Rev. Frederick Jervis-Smith on August 23, at sixty-three years of age, the world of science has lost an original and acute thinker and a man who had a genius for designing and constructing instruments of delicacy and precision. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he gave up the calling of his choice, went to Oxford and entered the Church for family reasons. The only son of the Rev. Prebendary Frederick Smith, of Taunton, he became the patron of the living of St. John's, Taunton, and was vicar for a few years. But he recognised that his real gifts were for science, and he took his workshop to Oxford, where he became Millard lecturer in experimental mechanics at Trinity College.
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The Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S. . Nature 87, 318 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087318a0
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