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Biographical notices of mineralogists recently deceased. (Second series)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer
L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum (Natural History)
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Short biographical notices of persons interested in scientific mineralogy have been given in this Magazine since 1876. In the last volume these were more systematically collected together and indexed for convenience of reference and permanent record. For a continuation of this series the various details have been collected and filed during the past three years. I have to thank several foreign correspondents for kindly supplying some of the less readily accessible information; in particular, Professor P. N. Chirvinsky, of Novocherkassk in the Don region.

The present list includes 55 haines, for 49 of which dates of birth and death, or ages, are here recorded. Including these with the 254 previously recorded in this Magazine, the total is 308 lives for which ages are known. The average age for these 303 lives of mineralogists is 64 years.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 20 , Issue 107 , December 1924 , pp. 252 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1924

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References

Page 252 note 1 Spencer, L. J., Biographical notices of mineralogists recently deceased ; with an index of those previously published in this Magazine. Min. Mag., 1921, vol. 19, pp. 240–262 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, with 9 portraits.

Page 252 note 2 Including Armashevsky, P. J. (1851-1919), whose date of birth was previously wanting. Another addition in dates is Grosspietsch, O. (1874-1920).

Page 253 note 1 For an explanation of the term ‘mode’ see Richardson, W. A. in Min. Mag., 1922, vol. 19, p. 805 Google Scholar.

Page 253 note 2 Pearson, K., Chances of death and other studies in evolution. London and New York, 1897, vol. 1, plate iv at p. 26 Google Scholar. (A reference to this work will be found on page 1 of the present volume.)

Page 267 note 1 On this estate good f-twins of calcite have been found (H. L. Bowman, Min. Mag., 1903, vol. 13, p. 329).

Page 273 note 1 This spelling should not be modified with an idea of indicating, in different languages, the correct pronunciation.