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EVERY active worker in geology, in geography and in oceanography will feel that the death on February 5 of William Morris Davis, at the age of eighty-four years, is the passing away of a historical figure in science. His life when written will be the story of the development of geomorphology and of the creation of an American school of international prestige. His whole career, more than sixty years of active scientific work, exhibits the regular series of interests of many great investigators, detailed studies in a relatively limited scientific field, next broader applications supported by intense, varied and enthusiastic studies to test and support the same—and finally the close of life devoted to a single line of investigation, often the ploughing of a lonely furrow.
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G., J. Prof. W. M. Davis. Nature 133, 973–974 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133973a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133973a0