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MR. BRISTOW'S death, which we briefly chronicled last week, requires a fuller notice. With him passes away one of the gentlest and most courteous of English geologists—one whose associations connected him with the magnates of geology in the early decades of this century, and whose death breaks another of the links that unite us personally with that heroic time. Born in 1817, he was the only son of Major-General H. Bristow, a distinguished officer, who devoted himself to the cause of Spain, where he died, and received the honours of a public funeral. Mr. Bristow suffered from an inveterate deafness. An old school-fellow, speaking of his boyish days not long ago, remarked that he was as deaf then as he was even late in life. This ailment was undoubtedly a life-long hindrance to him, for it kept him from mingling as freely among his associates, and taking so public a part, as his tastes and abilities would have prompted and fitted him to do.
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Henry William Bristow, F.R.S. Nature 40, 206–207 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040206b0
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