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WE greatly regret to record the death of Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., at the age of eighty-one. It was he who, in 1854, collected relics of the ill-fated Franklin expedition in the Erebus and Terror.

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Notes. Nature 48, 296–300 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048296b0

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