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DEATH has been striking heavy blows at Cambridge. Only a little while ago we were mourning the loss of Maxwell, taken from us, as it seemed, in his prime, when we were fondly hoping that for many years yet to come, the bounds of science would continue to be widened by the labours of his powerful mind; and now Balfour has been snatched from us in the very flush of youth, with his work only just begun, for what he had achieved, great as it was, seemed to his friends only an earnest of that which was yet to come.
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FOSTER, M. Francis Maitland Balfour . Nature 26, 313–314 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026313a0
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