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The death of Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, at the comparatively early age of fifty-four, deprives the scientific world of a worker whose experience in tropical marine biology was unrivalled. Mayor stood in the direct historical succession of American participation in this field, for as the mantle of Louis Agassiz fell on his son Alexander, so did Alexander's mantle fall on the shoulders of Alfred Mayor, who accompanied him as assistant on man) of his wanderings in the Pacific. When, in 1904, Mayor was appointed director of the Marine Biological Department of the newly founded Carnegie Institution of Washington, he really entered into his inheritance, and though so many of the projects of his fruitful brain will never mature, the work which has been accomplished at his laboratory in the Tortugas, Florida, and during many expeditions, forms his imperishable monument.
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P., F. Dr. A. G. Mayor. Nature 110, 224–225 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110224a0
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