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SIR HENRY MIERS passed peacefully away on December 10 in his eighty-fifth year at his home in West Hampstead after a fortnight's illness. A man of unusual versatility, he gained eminence as a mineralogist and crystallographer, as a university administrator, and as a museum authority. Having had the advantage of what was commoner in his day than now, a classical education, before taking to mathematics and science, he had the gift of a fluent and lucid style of writing, as is evident in his numerous publications. Despite the partial failure of eyesight which afflicted him in his closing years and restricted his activity, he maintained up to the end his interest in all the matters that had formerly occupied his attention. When reading became difficult, he took up as a hobby the study of plants.
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SMITH, G. Sir Henry Miers, F. R. S. Nature 151, 47 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151047a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151047a0