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THE news of the death, on May 24, at Neustadt, in the Bavarian Palatinate, of Excellency Georg Balthasar von Neumayer was received with genuine regret by a world-wide circle of scientific men, to a very large number of whom he was personally known for his sterling qualities, the warmth of his friendship, his genial urbanity, and his kindly disposition, more especially towards young men entering upon a scientific career. To these he was the fatherly counsellor who gave them every encouragement to prosecute their studies in the broadest possible manner, for he had long ago realised that science had entered upon a new era of marvellous progress. The foreign visitor to German scientific gatherings has always been struck by the universal reverence for the name of Neumayer, for there have been very few of the savants of the fatherland during the past half-century who have not been influenced, more or less, by the great person ality who is now no more.
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01 June 1909
Mr. Hy. Harries informs us that on p. 403, of NATURE of June 3 the ship on which Dr. von Neumayer returned from Melbourne in 1864 was erroneously given by him as the Sovereign of the Seas; it should have been the Garrawald.
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HARRIES, H. Dr. Von Neumayer, For.Mem.R.S . Nature 80, 402–403 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080402a0
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