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THE science of oceanography and the scientific study of fisheries have lost a devoted and able worker by the tragic death of Mr. E. W. Nelson, the scientific superintendent of the Fishery Board's marine laboratory at the Bay of Nigg near Aberdeen, who was found dead in his laboratory on the morning of January 17. He had been appointed in September 1921 to succeed Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton in the service of the Fishery Board for Scotland, and he was proving himself a very effective investigator of Fishery problems. He was much liked and respected by his staff, and every one was looking forward to the work that he would do, especially as regards the physical conditions of the sea in their relation to fisheries, for it was in the bearings of physics on biology that he was most interested. He had an ingenious mind, more of the mathematical than of the biological order; though he was a keen naturalist as well. He was particularly well suited for the post that he held and he seemed to be very happy in his work.
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Mr. E. W. Nelson. Nature 111, 156 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111156a0
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