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IT is with much regret that we record the death of Mr. W. A. Baillie-Grohman, who passed away suddenly on November 27 at Schloss Matzen, in Tyrol, in his seventy-first year. A man of striking physique, endowed with high courage and great mind, he possessed an intense affection for the wild and grand in Nature, coupled, remarkably enough, with an unflagging interest in much that is purely scholarly. That such a man, the son of a sporting Austrian of large estate, should have developed in early youth what proved to be permanent tastes for hunting and mountaineering was perhaps inevitable, and in due course his adventures upon the mountains of Europe and North America gained for him a great reputation both as an intrepid climber and as a shooter of big game. But his claim to be remembered by naturalists rests upon a far more secure foundation, for many who achieve distinction in the fields indicated are, perhaps, best forgotten.
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W. A. Baillie-Grohman. Nature 108, 475–476 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108475b0
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