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THE death is announced, in his sixty-sixth year, of DR. WILLIAM THOMPSON SEDGWICK, who had been connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1883 as successively assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor of biology. He had also been, since 1897, curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston, and since 1902 a member of the advisory board of the hygienic laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service. Prof. Sedgwick was author of “Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health,”and joint author of “General Biology,”“The Human Mechanism,”and “A Short History of Science.”
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 837 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106837c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106837c0