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PROF. WILLIAM GOWLAND died on June 10 in his eightieth year. He had originally intended to enter the medical profession and actually worked with a medical man in Sheffield for two or three years. Afterwards he became a student at the Royal College of Chemistry, from which he passed in 1868 to the Royal School of Mines. Two years later he obtained the associateship both in mining and metallurgy. He was awarded the Murchison medal in geology and the De la Beche medal in mining.
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C., H. Prof. W. Gowland, F.R.S.. Nature 110, 16 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110016a0
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