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ABSTRACT SIR HENRY MIERS passed peacefully away on December 10 in his eighty-fifth year at his home in West Hampstead after a fortnight's illness. A man of unusual versatility, he


gained eminence as a mineralogist and crystallographer, as a university administrator, and as a museum authority. Having had the advantage of what was commoner in his day than now, a


classical education, before taking to mathematics and science, he had the gift of a fluent and lucid style of writing, as is evident in his numerous publications. Despite the partial failure


of eyesight which afflicted him in his closing years and restricted his activity, he maintained up to the end his interest in all the matters that had formerly occupied his attention. When


reading became difficult, he took up as a hobby the study of plants. ARTICLE PDF ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE * Get immediate access to this article *


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SMITH, G. Sir Henry Miers, F. R. S. _Nature_ 151, 47 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151047a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 09 January 1943 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151047a0 SHARE


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