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WE regret to announce the death, on January 15 of Mr. Charles Simmonds, one of the Superintending Analysts in the Government Laboratory. Born at Stourbridge in 1861, Mr. Simmonds was educated privately, and, selecting the Civil Service as a career, secured one of the chemical studentships at South Kensington established by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for training the staff of their laboratory, then at Somerset House. This was afterwards raised to the status of a separate Government Department under Sir Edward Thorpe as the first “Government Chemist.” Mr. Simmonds was entrusted (inter alia) with the investigation into the composition of “Pottery Glazes and Fritts” for the information of the Royal Commission appointed to report on that subject, and contributed an article under this title to Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, as well as several papers of a kindred nature to the Journal of the Chemical Society, viz. “Lead Silicates in relation to Pottery” (1901); “Constitution of certain Silicates” (1903); “Reduced Silicates” (1904); and (in conjunction with Sir EdwTard Thorpe) “Influence of Grinding upon the Solubility of Lead in Lead Fritts” (Manchester Memoirs, 1901). Mr. Simmonds was also the author of a treatise on “Alcohol,” published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., which is admittedly the most up-to-date and comprehensive work in English on the subject, and he was up to the last a frequent contributor to the pages of NATURE.
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C. Simmonds. Nature 106, 767 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106767a0
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