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BY a large number of zoologists, who have known the charm of Roscoff Marine Station during the last twenty years or more, the death of Prof. Yves Delage on October 8 will be felt as a personal loss. It was not merely that Prof. Delage grudged no time or trouble if he could help one with a piece of work; it was the impressive sincerity of the man and the simplicity with which he wore his learning. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the shore-fauna and of the literature of biology, but he encouraged the learner with a Darwin-like humility. His devotion to science was singularly complete. All through his life, with an extraordinary intensity, he was preoccupied with biological and psycho-biological problems, and he did not often unbend his bow except for the simple pleasures of domesticity and the open air.
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THOMSON, J. Prof. Yves Delage. Nature 106, 248 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106248a0
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