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II. HENRY WILDE (1833–1919). HENRY WILDE would have taken a very prominent, place among the scientific men of his time had his exceptional abilities not been handicapped by an obstinate and querulous disposition. He had imagination, ingenuity, and considerable experimental skill, but on the other hand he was possessed by vanity, pugnacity, and contempt for anybody else's opinion. In his scientific work he had a good sense of discrimination between the essential and the accidental, but in his personal relations with others, trivial grievances were magnified into serious injuries. Once he complained to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester that one of his clerks had insulted him. After an expression of regret and on a request for details, it appeared that the clerk, by an oversight, had omitted to put “F.R.S.” after his name on a letter.
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SCHUSTER, A. Biographical Byways. Nature 115, 383–385 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115383a0
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