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BY the retirement of the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Dr. Arthur Hutchinson, emeritus professor of mineralogy in the University, under the age limit of the new statutes, the University loses the services of one of its outstanding figures. For many years as lecturer in crystallography and demonstrator of mineralogy during the long tenure of the chair of mineralogy by the late Prof. Lewis, before himself succeeding to the chair in 1926, Dr. Hutchinson was the life and soul of that Department, and the inspirer of most of the original investigations carried on therein. His own contributions to original research were many and noteworthy, and his affectionate care for the valuable and ever-increasing collection of crystals and minerals in the New Museums, while at the same time it was kept usually available for actual study, was obvious to all who entered the Department; it was indeed often remarked upon by the many distinguished foreign mineralogists who visited Cambridge, and enjoyed the kindly hospitality of Dr. Hutchinson and his devoted wife, herself the sister of another eminent man of science, the late Sir Arthur Shipley.
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Prof. A. Hutchinson, O.B.E., F.R.S.. Nature 139, 577–578 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139577b0
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