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MR. MONTAGU AUSTIN PHILLIPS, the well-known lecturer on natural history subjects, died on January 11, aged fifty-nine years. He had been for many years associated with the British Museum (Natural History) where he acted as a deputy guide-lecturer. Originally he assisted the late Mr. J. H. Leonard, the first official guide-lecturer to be appointed at the Museum, and after Mr. Leonard's death in 1931 he carried on the whole of the guide work until the appointment of the second official guide-lecturer, Miss Mona Edwards, in October 1932. From that time onwards, Mr. Phillips acted as an auxilliary lecturer at the Museum, and was so engaged up to the close of last year, when ill-health caused him to abandon his work. In addition to lecturing in the Museum he had for many years been a well-known lecturer at schools, societies and field-clubs and travelled extensively in connexion with this work. In his lectures, Mr. Phillips had a certain charm of manner which made even the dullest of subjects attractive to his audience, whether it was a large audience at a ‘sit-down’ lecture or a small group of people in the Museum Galleries.
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DOLLMAN, G. Mr. M. A. Phillips. Nature 143, 192 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143192a0
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