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WE regret to record the death of Mr. Edgar Thurston, formerly superintendent of the Government Museum, Madras, which took place at Penzance on October 5 at the age of eighty years. Edgar Thurston, the second son of Charles Bosworth Thurston, was born at Kew and educated at Eton and the medical school of King's College, London, qualifying as L.R.C.P. in 1877. He was appointed superintendent of the Government Museum, Madras, in 1885, retaining that position until his retirement just under twenty-five years later, when he was made C.I.E. He had already received the award of the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal in 1902. After his retirement he returned to England, andcontinued to devote himself to research. He was much interested in the study of the Cornish flora, publishing “British and Foreign Trees and Shrubs in Cornwall” in 1930.
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Mr. E. Thurston, C.L.E.. Nature 136, 575–576 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136575a0
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