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WE regret to record the death of Dr. W. de Gray Birch, which took place at Monte Carlo on March 8. Dr. Bireh was in his eighty-third year, having been born on January i, 1842. The son of Dr. Samuel Birch, Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, he entered the MSS. Department of the Museum at the age of twenty-two, after being educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became senior assistant in the following year, and “held that post for thirty-eight years until his retirement in 1902, when he became curator of the library of the late and the present Lord Bute.
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DR. W. de Gray Birch. Nature 113, 468 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113468b0
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