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Biographical notices of mineralogists recently deceased. (Eighth series.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 199 , December 1947 , pp. 175 - 229
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

References

page 175 note 1 Indexes to notices are given in vol. 19. pp. 259–262, and vol. 23, pp. 364–366. A mortality curve is given in vol. 20, p. 253.

page 201 note 1 Job Charnock (d. 1693), founder of Calcutta. While minerals have often been named after persons, this is exceptional in the case of rocks, the only other example that comes to mind being dolomite.