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WITH much regret we record the death of Mr. Trenham Reeks, the esteemed Registrar of the Royal School of Mines, Jermyn Street. He had been ailing for some weeks, and last week the complaint assumed the serious form of inflammation of the lungs. There was still hope of his recovery a few days ago, but he expired on Tuesday morning, the 5th inst. By his death one of the oldest associations of the Geological Survey and School of Mines is severed. While still young he became connected with the infant museum established by the energy of his friend, Sir Henry de la Beche, in Craig's Court; and on the enlargement of that establishment and the creation of the School of Mines, he was appointed to the office which he has held up till now. Having in early life devoted himself to chemistry and mineralogy, he took great pride in the mineralogical collection under his charge in Jermyn Street, and from year to year enriched it with fresh acquisitions. He had a great knowledge of pottery, and gained it at a time when the taste was far less general than it is now. The illustrated hand-book which, in conjunction with De la Beche, he prepared of the ceramic collection in the Jermyn Street Museum, though long ago out of print, is still a valued work of reference. Personally, he was singularly courteous and obliging, though tenacious of purpose and not easily defeated in any matter wherein he had resolved to succeed. He thoroughly identified himself with the interests of the School of Mines, to which his loss must now be great.
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Trenham Reeks . Nature 20, 38–39 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020038a0
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