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CH. FRANCOIS-FRANCK, the distinguished physiologist, and officer of the Legion of Honour, who passed away in September last at the age of seventy, was the successor, at the Collège de France, of Marey, whose assistant he had been from the time of his arrival from Bordeaux to work for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The acquaintance was most fortunate. Marey, always in more or less delicate health and naturally desirous of saving his strength, seldom delivered the annual course of forty lectures which necessitated so much original work—for the lectures of the College de France are not given for the instruction of students in preparation for examinations, but to further the advancement of science. Marey continued in his own laboratory that admirable series of experiments on the flight of birds, the motions of the horse and man, and the compilation of his book, “La Methode Graphique,”of universal renown.
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Prof. Ch. François-Franck. Nature 108, 314 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108314a0
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