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FORMER students of the University of Melbourne in all parts of the world will be sorry at the death in Melbourne of Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle, at the age of eighty-three. Lyle came from Dublin, after an academic career of distinction (enhanced by three years of playing Rugby for Ireland), to the Melbourne chair of natural philosophy in 1889, when the University was in its thirty-sixth year and he in his thirtieth; he held the professorship for more than a quarter-century, and thereafter continued to give valuable services to the State of Victoria until a few years ago.
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MASSON, J. Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle, F.R.S. Nature 153, 518 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153518a0
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