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PROF. LUDWIG DAMSTÄDTER, director of the State Library, Berlin, died on Oct. 18. A native of Mannheim Darmstädter was educated at the Universitie Heidelberg, Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. About twenty years ago he presented to the State Library, Berlin, his valuable collection of porcelain and of autographs and other documents relating to men of science. This collection, known as the “Dokumenten-Sammlung Darmstädter,” has developed until it is probably the largest of its kind His best - known work is the “Handbuch zur Gesehiehte der Technik und Naturwissensehaften.”
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[Obituaries]. Nature 120, 848 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120848b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120848b0