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WE are informed that Dr. Sharpey, who has for so many years filled with such great advantage to Science and personal distinction the post of Biological Secretary to the Royal Society, has recently sent in his resignation of that appointment. There is a very general hope among Fellows of the Royal Society that Prof. Huxley may allow himself to be nominated as his successor.

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Notes . Nature 6, 149–151 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006149b0

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