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IN these days, when the appeal is for men of experience to run the world's industries, the sudden silencing an authentic voice is a matter for sorrow deeper than the grief so often hidden beneath the vesture of public or official mourning. The death, on February 24 at the age of sixty, of Prof. Douglas Hay, one of the two chief mining engineers of the National Coal Board and a past-president of the Institution of Mining Engineers, has left a gap in the industry that will be hard to fill. For he had travelled the trying road of experience and passed the milestones of change in mining until he reached the highest position in his profession. Those who knew that quiet, unassuming charm which was so big a feature of his life understood fully that it was an advancement due not only to his great technical and administrative ability, but also to a sympathetic personality that enabled him to get on well with those with whom he came into contact. He won the affection of miners through sympathetic personality, Em unending thought for others, and a friendship that had no bounds.
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Prof. Douglas Hay. Nature 163, 557 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163557a0
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