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WE regret to record the death of Sir Philip James Hamilton-Grierson, who died suddenly on Monday, April 25, at Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, at the age of sixty-six years. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Merton College, Oxford, taking his degree in 1876. A member of the Scottish Bar,-he held a number of legal appointments in Scotland, was knighted in 1910 and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1920. In addition to editing a number of legal works, he was the author of several articles which appeared in Hastings' “Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics,” but his most important contribution to scientific literature was “The Silent Trade: A Contribution to the Early History of Human Intercourse,” a valuable book in which he brought his legal training to bear upon the facts and underlying principles involved in primitive systems of economics and exchange.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 119, 678 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119678c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119678c0