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CANON EDMUND MCCLURE, whose death occurred on November 18, at the age of eighty-five years, was editorial secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge from 1875 to 1915, during which period he controlled the great mass of publications issued by the Society. He graduated in honours both at the old Queen's University, Belfast, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He held a curacy at Belfast for ten years, and was then collated to an honorary canonry at Bristol. Among his scientific and historical works he published a Star Atlas, adapted from the German of Klein; translations of Hommel's “Hebrew Tradition,” and Kittel's “Babylonian Excavations”; he also had a share in a history of the society which he served so long, and in “British Place Names.” Though he did little original work, his influence on scientific and historical literature was important.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 110, 781 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110781b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110781b0