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A LIFE of strenuous and useful work with ripe experience terminated on January 6 when Thomas Crook, principal of the Mineral Resources Department of the Imperial Institute, London, died after an abdominal operation, at the early age of sixty years. Crook was born at Burnley, in Lancashire, on January 12, 1876. On the examination results of the old Science and Art Department he gained in 1898 a Royal Exhibition to the Royal College of Science for Ireland, where he took the associateship (A.R.C.Sc.I.) in natural science in 1901. He then became assistant in geology to the late Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole. In 1905 he joined the Scientific Department of the Imperial Institute, and for six years (1919-25) he was chief of the Intelligence and Publications Section of the new Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, which afterwards was incorporated with the Imperial Institute.
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S., L. Mr. Thomas Crook, O.B.E.. Nature 139, 141 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139141a0
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