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ME. HENRY GAENETT, for many years director of Messrs. Flatters and Garnett, Ltd., opticians and scientific instrument makers of Manchester, died on Nov. 3, aged sixty-three years. Henry Garnett was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1868, where his father was head of Newtown School (of the Society of Friends). There he formed a close friendship with the naturalist J. H. Salter (afterwards professor of botany at Aberystwyth). He was apprenticed to a chemist in Evesham, and during his scant leisure collected a herbarium which was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Pharmaceutical Society. Later he won the Bell Scholarship, and after passing the minor and major (1890) examinations, he secured three silver medals and the Pereira Medal. He worked out, under the direction of Prof. Dunster, the active principles of Piper ovatum, and some years later, with Mr. J. Grier, conducted a research into the active principle of ginger, contributing papers to the Pharmaceutical Conference in 1907. Mr. Garnett was keenly interested in birds and plants, and at the time of his death was vice-president of the Manchester Microscopical Society.
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Mr. Henry Garnett. Nature 128, 930 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128930a0
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