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THE death is announced of DR. J. E. BLOMFIELD at Sevenoaks on July 8. Dr. Blomfield was educated at Winchester, and later at the Uni versity of Oxford, where he obtained a demyship at Magdalen College in natural science. He after wards entered the medical course, was elected Radcliffe travelling fellow, and worked at Jena, Vienna, and Paris. His clinical studies were pur sued at University College Hospital, where he became house physician. On the advice of friends Dr. Blomfield decided to enter general practice, and from 1889 onwards practised at Sevenoaks. He was an accomplished microscopist, at an early date in his career published a paper on spermato-genesis, which attracted the attention of Charles Darwin, and later made a number of notes on, and preparations of, new growths in trees.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 721 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107721b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107721b0