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BY the death of Mr. Thomas Steel in Sydney on August 17 last, Australia has lost an enthusiastic and observant naturalist. His publications include descriptions of Australian land planarians and notes on their habits. Mr. Steel was born in Glasgow in 1858, and after training as a chemist entered the service of a sugar refinery in Greenock. In 1882 he was appointed chemist to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company of Sydney. Much of his spare time was devoted to the study of the fauna of New South Wales and of Victoria, and he accumulated a large collection of excellently preserved specimens, especially of land planarians and Peripatus, many of which he gave to the Australian Museum and others to his zoological friends in Great Britain. Mr. Steel was a prominent member of the"Linnean Society of New South Wales, and was president in the years 1905–7.
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Mr. Thomas Steel. Nature 116, 550 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116550a0
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