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IN the obituary notice of Sir John McLennan published in NATURE of October 19 (p. 633), it was stated that he went from Toronto to Cambridge with an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship. Prof. A. S. Eve now informs us that this statement is not correct. Dr. E. F. Burton, who succeeded Sir John at Toronto, has written: “Although most of the men who were at the Cavendish with Dr. McLennan held 1851 Exhibition Scholarships, he did not have one himself. As a matter of fact, he resigned his position at Toronto in order to go abroad entirely at his own expense. It was in the nature of a gamble for him at that time as his resources were very meagre, but he realised that this was the only possible course to take if he wanted to work in what was then modern physics. He was undoubtedly moved to do this by the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Toronto in 1897, as it was just after this that he went to England.”
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Sir John McLennan, K.B.E,, F.R.S.. Nature 136, 829 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136829d0
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