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A GREAT engineer, Sir Alexander Richardson Binnie, born in London in, 1839, died on May 18 at the age of seventy-eight. He joined the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1865, and in 1905 became its president. He was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Geological Society, and other societies, and contributed to their Transactions several valuable papers. Always interested in historical studies, he sketched in an address to the Institution of Civil Engineers the progress of science and engineering during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Sir A. R. Binnie . Nature 99, 267 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099267a0
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