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WE regret having to record the death of Prof. Edward Divers, F.R.S., which occurred on April 8. Born in London on.November 27, 1837, he was educated at the City of London School, at the Royal College of Chemistry, and at Queen's College, Galway. In 1870 he was appointed lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and in 1873 he went to Japan as professor of chemistry in the College of Engineering of the Imperial University at Tokyo, of which he became principal in 1882. He remained in Japan until 1899, when he was made-emeritus professor and received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, in addition to that of the Rising Sun, which had been previously conferred upon him.
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Prof. Edward Divers, F.R.S. . Nature 89, 170 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089170a0
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