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ALL who are interested in medicine and the cognate sciences learnt with great regret of the death of Dr. William Marcet, which occurred on March 4, at Luxor, at the ripe age of seventy-two years. Dr. Marcet up till last summer continued to take that keen interest in matters scientific which had characterised him all his life, and it was only with a pronounced failure in his health that he discontinued active physiological research. His active scientific life in London was longer than the average, and exceeded half a century; and this, perhaps, accounts for his many friends, and also for the fact that he was brought into contact with successive generations of physiological workers. His ample means rendered time of less consequence to him than to many of his colleagues, and this good fortune was utilised by him to the full, in that his researches were for the most part directed to themes of a time-consuming nature, and also to those requiring for their adequate prosecution somewhat elaborate and expensive methods.
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TUNNICLIFFE, F. Dr. William Marcet, F.R.S. . Nature 61, 497 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061497a0
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