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WITH deep regret the whole scientific world will hear of the death, of Sir William Henry Perkin, F.R.S., the founder of the coal-tar colour industry, and one of the most distinguished of British chemists. Sir William Perkin passed away at his residence, Sudbury, on Sunday, July 14, after four days' illness, the cause of death being double pneumonia and appendicitis. Especially affecting will be the news to his London friends, among whom his bodily vigour and mental energy had even up to the last, been the envy of many a younger man.
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CAIN, J. Sir W. H. Perkin, F.R.S. . Nature 76, 276 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076276a0
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