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ON Wednesday morning, August 16, the illustrious Heidelberg chemist breathed his last, after a long life wholly devoted to the furtherance of science. In April 1881 I communicated to the columns of this journal a sketch of the work of him whose death at the ripe age of eighty-eight all lovers of science now have to deplore. We can only now call attention to the magnitude and extent of that work, and lay on the grave of one of the truest and noblest of men the tribute of our admiration and respect. As expressing the position held by Bunsen amongst the standard-bearers of science, I may, perhaps, be forgiven for quoting the opening sentences of what I wrote eighteen years ago, as I cannot find more appropriate words to indicate what all feel who know what his work was.
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ROSCOE, H. Professor Bunsen. Nature 60, 424–425 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060424b0
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