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JUST at a time when preparations are being made to celebrate the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Czech biologist, Jan Evangelista PurkynS (Purkinje) comes the news that his grandson, Prof. Cyril PurkynS, died in Prague on April 5 after a long illness at the age of seventy-four years. Prof. Cyril Purkyne had been professor of geology and mineralogy at Prague Technical University since 1907, after having taught geology and palaeontology at Pilsen from 1895 until 1907. Whilst there, he began his work on local geological cartography and this was extended after his appointment as the first director of the Czechoslovak State Geological Institute in 1919.
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[Obituary]. Nature 139, 705 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139705b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139705b0