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DR. J. H. BRIDGES was the most philosophic and scientific mind among the leaders of the positivist movement at the end of the last century, and it is good to know that he will at last be recalled to mind, while many who knew him in person are still alive. For he was unique in many ways, a most attractive and lovable character, above all a thoroughly typical Englishman who had succeeded in putting himself in the right European and international position without forfeiting a jot of his national qualities and attachment. He became, by his training at Oxford and as a doctor and by his attachment to Comte, the most all-round man of his time, specially interesting to readers of NATURE and contemporary men of science generally.
A Nineteenth-Century Teacher: John Henry Bridges, M.B., F.R.C.P., sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Medical Inspector to the Local Government Board.
By his Niece, Susan Liveing. Pp. xv + 262. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 7s. 6d. net.
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M., F. A Nineteenth-Century Teacher: John Henry Bridges, MB, FRCP, sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Medical Inspector to the Local Government Board . Nature 119, 116 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119116a0
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