Abstract
LITTLE more than a year has passed since the friends of science and of education in Canada had to mourn the death of Sir William Dawson. Though for the last six years of his life he had retired from his active official duties, his pen was not allowed to remain idle, but continued to throw off papers for scientific journals, addresses to societies and books of a more or less popular kind. One of the occupations of these closing years appears to have been the preparation of a sketch of his own career, which he left complete even to the dated preface with instructions to his son to have it published as early as might be practicable after his death. Dr. Rankine Dawson has accordingly fulfilled the charge committed to him, and the result is a little volume entitled “Fifty years of Work in Canada, Scientific and Educational.”
Fifty Years of Work in Canada, Scientific and Educational.
By Sir William Dawson Pp. viii + 308. (London and Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1901.)
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G., A. Fifty Years of Work in Canada, Scientific and Educational . Nature 65, 339–341 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065339a0
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