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BY the death of Sir John Kirk at the advanced age of ninety, the world has lost the last survivor of the heroic pioneers of African exploration, the founder of the British position in Eastern Equatorial Africa, and a botanist whose contributions to African natural history were of first-rate importance.
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Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S. Nature 109, 114–115 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109114a0
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