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IN the death on October 26, at the age of eighty-seven years, of William Johnson Sollas, the University of Oxford and the science of geology have lost an outstanding personality. To a liberal culture, especially on the scientific side, he added a wide and ever-increasing knowledge of his own subject, a genius for research which extended to all its chief branches, and a philosophical point of view which always penetrated to the deeper and more theoretical bearing of the subjects with which he dealt.
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WATTS, W. Prof. W. J. Sollas, F.R.S.. Nature 138, 959–960 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138959a0
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