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MANY will regret to hear of the death of Prof. John Wesley Judd on March 3 at his home in Kew, after some months of illness. He was born at Portsmouth on February 18, 1840, but in his eighth year went to London with his father. There he attended a school in Camber-well, and at an early age showed a love for astronomy and geology. When grown up he accepted a mastership in a school at Horncastle, Lincolnshire, where his spare time was devoted to chemistry and geology. In 1863 he became a student at the Royal School of Mines, after which he took the post of analytical chemist in some important iron and steel works in Sheffield. There began, in 1864, his friendship with H. C. Sorby, who imparted to him his newly-devised methods of petrological study, but his work in that city was brought to an end by a railway accident, which for a long time compelled him to abstain from continuous labour, so he resumed his geological studies in Lincolnshire.
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BONNEY, T. Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S. . Nature 97, 37–38 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097037a0
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