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THE death is announced of PROF. GUSTAV MANN at Tampico, U.S.A., on July 18, at the age of fifty-seven years. Prof. Mann's vivid personality will be best remembered by Oxford physiology students of twenty years ago, and his translation to the chair of physiology at the Tulane University, New Orleans, was a grievous loss to the progress of histology in this country. As a master of the technique of his subject he was probably unsurpassed, and his breadth of view and lively imagination gave his instruction an unusual interest and significance, carried on by his pupil and successor at Oxford, S. G. Scott, until the latter's premature death. Too volatile to be largely productive in the ordinary way, his “Physiological Histology” is often the most thumbed book in laboratories where section cutting is taken seriously, and many grateful pupils will lament a real master whose determination to get himself disliked led him into so many troublous adventures.
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Obituary. Nature 108, 221 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108221d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108221d0