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DR. JOHN AUGUSTUS VOELCKER, who died on November 6 at eighty-three years of age, was almost the last representative of the group of men whose work in the application of chemistry to the development of agriculture was of very great importance in the second half of the nineteenth century. The son of Dr. Augustus Voelcker, himself one of the most eminent of the group of agricultural chemists referred to, he was trained to succeed his father, first at University College, London, then at Giessen, and finally at Cambridge. After this he joined the laboratory which his father had established in London. This laboratory was unique at the time, and the methods used there, to which Dr. Voelcker adhered during almost all his life, have become very largely the standards used in similar laboratories all over the world.
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Dr. J. A. Voelcker, C.I.E. Nature 140, 1001–1002 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401001b0
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