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SIR JOHN KELTIE seemed endowed with perpetual youth. He regulated his activities so nicely to his increasing age that, even when well advanced in his eighty-seventh year, he was able in one dav to lunch at his club, attend a long committee meeting and the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, conduct a dinner of the Geographical Club, sit through a long evening meeting of the Society, seeing and hearing everything as clearly as when a boy, and, after returning home, sit up until midnight talking over the past and planning the future for a year or two ahead. He found life so full of interest and satisfaction that there seemed no reason why he should not live to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Geographical Society in 1930, and that of his own birth in 1940. He was happy in being spared the suffering of long illness and the dulling of his physical powers; he died of bronchitis on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at work almost to the last dav.
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MILL, H. Sir John Scott Keltie. Nature 119, 130–131 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119130a0
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