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WITH the death of Dr. E. Klein at Hove on February 9, one passed away who had played an important part in English medical science for more than half a century. It is not an easy thing to give a complete account of him or to estimate accurately the value of his work. He had been with us so long that but few of his early contemporaries survive, while the younger workers from whose lives the War subtracted years knew him merely as a name, and had probably never seen him. Indeed, he was a somewhat elusive personality to all of us, as he kept a good deal to himself. The present writer knew him as a fellow-worker in the same branch of study, and had also dealings with him of a scientific kind. Much of what has been written of him since his death will be found to be incomplete and inaccurate. Our claims to write of him rest on information derived from two friends who knew him intimately half a century ago, on a personal acquaintance with him for half this time, and on an intimate study of almost all his works, a study with which we have refreshed our memory since his death.
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B., W. Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S. Nature 115, 308–309 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115308a0
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