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ON March 31 Mr. H. W. Robinson retires from the office of librarian of the Royal Society. He joined the staff of the Society in 1902, when as a boy of fourteen he assisted both the chief clerk and the librarian. His work soon became exclusively associated with the Society‘s Library ; in 1930 he was raised from assistant to the -post of assistant librarian and five years later to the position which he now holds. This forty-six years service to the Society has been twice broken by war. In the First World War Mr. Robinson served in the army with distinction; in the Second World War there was a period of service on the Central Register, which came between the strenuous work which he performed in seeing the Society‘s manuscripts and early printed books safely to Wales and his recall to the Society‘s service in 1943. Since then he has had the exacting but pleasant task of seeing the Library‘s books brought back from Oxford, where they had been stored by the Bodleian Library, and arranged in their places with a minimum of inconvenience and disturbance.
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Library of the Royal Society : Mr. H. W. Robinson. Nature 161, 388 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161388c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161388c0