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“WHO'S WHO” is now in its fifty-second year of issue and as a handy work of reference containing biographical particulars and addresses of persons of greater or less prominence in science, art, and literature it stands alone. Tested by several years of use, the publication has been proved to be a dictionary of biography which can be referred to with confidence. Science is fairly well represented, every Fellow of the Royal Society from whom particulars could be obtained being included, and also other workers in the scientific world. A complete list of Fellows of the Royal Society is given among the useful miscellaneous information which precedes the biographical sketches. Curiosity induced us to see how many of these names also occur in the list of members of the Privy Council, and we found that although 25 of the 265 members of the Council have been admitted into the Royal Society, only two or three can with the most liberal interpretation be considered as engaged in scientific work.
Who's Who. 1900. An Annual Biographical Dictionary.
Pp. xviii + 1002.
The Englishwoman's Year-Book and Directory. 1900.
Edited by Emily James. Pp. xxi + 340. (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1900.)
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Who's Who 1900 An Annual Biographical Dictionary The Englishwoman's Year-Book and Directory 1900. Nature 61, 270 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061270b0
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