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THE sudden death on June 27 of Francis Sydney Smythe, the well-known mountaineer and writer, has removed one who for a considerable number of years has brought home to the public in effectual manner both the beauty of great mountains and the supreme adventures of climbing them. This he did in some twenty or more books, apart from numerous articles, relating to the Alps and the Himalayas especially, and it is significant that it was his last visit this year to the beloved Himalayas which was the cause of his decease through infection from some unknown germ.
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ODELL, N. Mr. F. S. Smythe. Nature 164, 266 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164266a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164266a0