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BY the death on May 15, at the age of seventy-six years, of Mr. J. J. Fletcher, who for thirty-three years was secretary of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Australia has lost one of the ablest and most sincere as well as one of the most beloved of her scientific workers. He was one of the first two Australians to take a science degree at the University of London, and during his visit to England he came under the influence of the late Prof. Francis Balfour at Cambridge, an experience that exercised a lasting influence upon his work and ideals. For the last forty years his life has been devoted to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, and its work bears the imprint of his fine character in the standard which has been maintained throughout all these years. He joined the Society in 1881, and at the time of his death was the second oldest member. During the course of his tenure of the secretaryship of the Linnean Society he also controlled the general management of the Society's affairs and edited the Proceedings. But this list of duties gives no adequate idea of the extent of his services to biology in Australia. He took his work as editor very seriously, and few of the contributors to its Proceedings failed to receive very material help from him in the lucid presentation of their results and in completing their bibliographical references. He was as modest and tactful as he was helpful.
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Mr. J. J. Fletcher. Nature 118, 20 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118020a0
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