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BY the death of Sir William Roberts-Austen, which occurred at his official residence in the Mint on Saturday, November 22, metallurgical science has to deplore the loss of one of its most distinguished representatives. He had been in failing health for some months past, and had suffered from one or two sharp attacks of illness during the last few years, but even his most intimate friends, until a few days before his death, were quite unprepared for the suddenness of his end.
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THORPE, T. Sir William Roberts-Austen, K.C.B., F.R.S. . Nature 67, 105–107 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067105a0
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