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ON Thursday last, October 5, Capt. Keith Lucas lost his life in a flying accident. In his short span of life—he was but thirty-seven—he had become the leading authority on the phenomena of excitation in nerve and muscle. He had gone through several phases. Coming up from Rugby, he obtained a minor scholarship in classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the college in 1897. He passed to natural science studies, and took a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos. Soon after this he made a bathymetrical survey of a New Zealand lake. He then began research in physiology, was elected a fellow of Trinity in 1904, and a little later was appointed lecturer of the college and demonstrator of physiology in the University. The line of research he had chosen led to the development of his inherited faculty of mechanical design, and each additional step of his work was marked by the invention of a new instrument or by some striking improvement in afstrumental methods necessary for the successful investigation of the problem. His exceptional mechanical ability found further scope when he became one of the scientific directors of the Cambridge Instrument Company.
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LANGLEY, J. Capt. Keith Lucas, F.R.S. . Nature 98, 109 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098109d0
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