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WE regret to announce the death of DR. FRANCIS WILLIAM PASSMORE at his home at Bexley Heath on Saturday, October 29. Dr. Pass-more began his training with Dr. B. H. Paul. In those days London was probably the largest market in the world for cinchona bark, and Dr. Paul acquired no small reputation as a “quinologist.” After five years in Dr. Paul's laboratory Passmore proceeded to Wurzburg, where he worked under Emil Fischer about the time the latter began his classical investigation of the sugars. He published three papers with Fischer on the formation of acrose from formaldehyde, the phenylhydrazides of acids derived from sugars, and on the synthesis of higher homologues of d-mannose.
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Dr. F. W. Passmore. Nature 108, 379 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108379a0
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