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I REGRETTED to see Sir Arthur Schuster's article in NATURE of February 7 presented so unpleasing a picture of my old chief, Dr. S. P. Langley. Like some other great men I have met, his character had blemishes, and, as one of Sir Arthur's anecdotes indicates, it was surprising to see in so great a man such care to preserve the appearance of dignity which he thought properly attached to his office and his attainments. If he had been as careless of it as Lord Kelvin, dignity would have wrapped itself about him like a cloak, crowned with the mantle of lovableness, which, to his intimates, Langley surely possessed. One is reminded of the Scripture saying: βHe that loveth his life shall lose it.β
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ABBOT, C. Biographical Byways: Dr. S. P. Langley. Nature 115, 455 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115455a0
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