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WE regret to learn that Mr. Hugh Richardson, who for many years had a stimulating influence upon school science teaching, died on November 24 at seventy-two years of age. Mr. Richardson was educated at Bootham School, York, and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. In the following year he became a master on the modern side of Sedbergh School, Yorks, where he remained until 1897, when he became science master at Bootham School, remaining in that position until he retired in 1914. He was an enthusiastic teacher with unusually wide interests and fertility of ideas; and his work at Bootham School represented science teaching at its best, being both practical and comprehensive. The school possesses an astronomical observatory, and Mr. Richardson used this to teach astronomy by similar practical methods to those adopted by him for instruction in physics and chemistry, botany and geography. He was an examiner in botany for matriculation at the University of London in 1904-7, and was secretary of the Educational Science Section of the British Association during the years 1906-15.
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Mr. Hugh Richardson. Nature 138, 1088 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381088a0
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