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MR. GEORGE CLINCH, the librarian of the Society of Antiquaries, whose death, on February 2, we regret to record, joined the staff of the society in January, 1896, having previously been employed at the British Museum. In May, 1886, he exhibited to the society a collection of flint implements found by him during eight years in West Wickham, Kent. In December, 1888, Mr. Clinch reported to the society the results of excavations made by him during the ten previous years in the supposed pit-dwelling at Hayes Common, in the same county. Later, he published a volume entitled “Antiquarian Jottings,”describing in a popular manner these and other researches in the same district. Mr. Clinch also wrote a number of the “Little Guides,”and a work on old English churches. He prepared the annual Lists of Archaeological Papers after they had been discontinued by Sir Laurence Gomme. As librarian he earned the esteem of the fellows and others using the library by his courtesy and readiness to assist. He was in his sixty-first year.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 837 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106837b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106837b0