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GEOLOGY perhaps more than any other science needs all the assistance which careful amateurs can bring to the total sum of knowledge. Men living on the spot are of the greatest service to the official geologists when a re-survey takes place. George Abbott was one of the most painstaking of local geologists, whose help was always at the service of those who needed it. Born on March 25, 1844, he was in his eighty-first year when he died on January 12 at Tunbridge Wells, where he had lived since 1878. Scattered in various publications are many of his contributions to geology, but he was particularly interested in the various rock-forms which so often resemble organised life. From the magnesian limestone of Fulwell he obtained most of his specimens, and these he classified in so clear a manner that one was able to realise from his tables the series of stages by which such forms gradually grew to their familiar pseudo-organic shapes.
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Mr. George Abbott. Nature 115, 201 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115201a0
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