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IT is seldom that the death of a man more than eighty years of age can so truly be described as an irreparable loss to his science as can be said of John Home, who has passed away with full mental powers and while completing a work on the geology of Scotland, which would no doubt have been a masterly digest of the voluminous and scattered literature, a luminous statement of the problems, and have been inspired by his contagious enthusiasm.
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GREGORY, J. Dr. John Horne, F.R.S.. Nature 121, 991–992 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121991a0
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