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MR. ROBERT ETHERIDGE, director of the Australian Museum, Sydney, died on January 4 last at the age of seventy-three years. He was active almost until the end, still occupied with research, and his decease is a serious loss to Australasian science. The only son of the late Mr. Robert Etheridge, palæontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and afterwards assistant-keeper of the geological department of the British Museum, Etheridge adopted the profession of his father, and made many important contributions to our knowledge of the fossils of both Australasia and Britain. Beginning his career on the first geological survey of Victoria, Australia, he returned in the early 'seventies to become paleontologist to the Geological Survey of Scotland, where he not only did important official work, but also1 co-operated with the late Prof. H. A. Nicholson in describing the Silurian fossils of Girvan, Ayrshire. From 1878 until 1887 he was assistant in the geological department of the British Museum, where he joined the late P. Herbert Carpenter in the authorship of the “Catalogue of the Blastoidea,” which still remains the standard work on these fossils.
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W., A. Robert Etheridge . Nature 104, 700–701 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104700a0
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