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Nature 163, 557 (9 April 1949) | doi:10.1038/163557a0;

Prof. Douglas Hay

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IN these days, when the appeal is for men of experience ifO run the world's industries, the sudden stiencing/Oi an authentic voice is a matter for sorrow deeg than the grief so often hidden beneath the vesj re of public or official mourning. The death, on February 24 at the age of sixty, of Prof. Douglas Hay, one of the two chief mining engineers of the National Coal Board and a past-president of the Institution of Mining Engineers, has left a gap in the industry that will be hard to fill.