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ORIENTAL learning has suffered a grievous loss by the death, at the age of eighty years, of SIR ARTHUR NAYLOR WOLLASTON, K.C.I.E. Appointed to a post in the India Office at the age of sixteen, Wollaston served for forty-eight years in that Department. In 1898 he succeeded the late Mr. F. C. Danvers as registrar, and he was so successful in arranging the voluminous series of records that they became readily accessible to students. In this task he was succeeded by his pupil, Mr. W. Foster, who has done valuable work in calendaring the collection. Wollaston, in addition to his official duties, became an admirable Persian scholar, though he never had the good fortune to visit the East. He translated the Fables of Bidpai, and edited Sir Lewis Felly's “Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain.” But the work by which he will be best remembered is his great English-Persian Dictionary. At Walmer, where he resided for many years, he took an active share in the local administration.
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[Obituary]. Nature 109, 246 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109246b0
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