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FRANK FINN, whose recent death, at sixty-four years of age, we regret to record, was an exhibitioner of Brasenose College, Oxford, and an excellent classical scholar. Whilst at Oxford he took a great interest in ornithology, both as an observer of birds and a systematic naturalist. He acquired a reputation amongst dealers and spent a great deal of his time in identifying collections of skins. This pursuit, unfortunately, occupied much of the time that he should have devoted to classics, with the result that his academic success by no means equalled his capacity. It may be said that this showed almost the leading defect in his character, which prevented him from being really successful in any of his undertakings. He was always more interested in something which it was unnecessary to do at the time than in the immediate duty before him.
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Mr. Frank Finn. Nature 130, 837–838 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130837a0
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