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IT is with much regret that we record the untimely and sudden death on the 1st inst. from apoplexy of Mr. William George Valentin. He was born in Neuenburg, in the Black Forest, on May 16, 1829. He came to England in 1855, and, in the early days of the Royal College of Chemistry, studied under Dr. Hofmann, who esteemed him greatly, and, recognising his ability, made him senior assistant in the laboratory, a position which he retained at the Science Schools, South Kensington, under Dr. Frankland. He held for some years the office of gas examiner to the Great Western Gas Company, and at the time of his death was chemical adviser to the Trinity House.
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William George Valentin . Nature 20, 39 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020039a0
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