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WE regret to record the untimely death of Mr. William Rickatson Dykes, secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, at the early age of forty-eight years. Motoring with his wife near Woking, his car skidded, collided with a lorry, and he was thrown out, sustaining severe injuries to his ear and right arm. Attempts to save the latter failed, and he died of syncope, following the amputation of his arm at the shoulder, on Tuesday, December i.
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Mr. W. R. Dykes. Nature 116, 908–909 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116908b0
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