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ON July 27, 1844, at the ripe age of seventy-eight, John Dalton passed peacefully away in Manchester. Local feeling was stirred to its depths; it was unanimously agreed that nothing less; than a public funeral could express the reverence felt for the memory of so great a man. This was the more remarkable since Dalton was a strict Quaker and as such was opposed to official ceremony. His remains lay in the darkened town hall, where some 40,000 people paid homage before interment took place in Ardwick Cemetery on August 12.
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FRIEND, J. John Dalton, 1766–1844. Nature 154, 103–105 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154103a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154103a0