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THE familiar and welcome figure of Prof. H. E. Armstrong has been missed in scientific circles for several months; and his caustic comments upon contemporary views and events—both scientific and unscientific—have similarly been absent from the pages of NATURE and of other periodicals. Though, however, general physical weakness prevents Prof. Armstrong from moving about and attending meetings in the way he has done all his life, yet he still takes active interest in progressive work of every kind and asks his friends not to hesitate to communicate with him. He enters his ninetieth year on May 6, and maintains the indomitable and fearless spirit which has always characterized him. “I should like”, he wrote a short time ago to an old friend, “to start over again in the hope that knowledge may be so made use of that some measure of tolerance and common sense will be infused into the nations.”
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Prof. H. E. Armstrong. Nature 139, 666 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139666d0
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