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DR. C. J. GAHAN, who died on January 21, the day after attaining his seventy-seventh birthday, was for thirteen years keeper of the Department of Entomology of the British Museum (Natural History) and was in charge of the enormous collection of insects at South Kensington from 1910, when he succeeded the late Charles Owen Waterhouse as assistant-keeper in charge of that section of the Department of Zoology, until his retirement from the Museum in 1926. Increasing recognition of the importance of entomology led to the creation of a separate Department of Entomology in 1913 and Gahan was appointed its first keeper.
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ARROW, G. Dr. C. J. Gahan. Nature 143, 401 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143401a0
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