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THE sudden death of Sir William Abbot Herdman on July 21 will be deeply regretted by naturalists in many parts of the world. For several years his general health had been bad. His only son, George, was killed in the battle of the Somme, and this calamity accentuated an illness from rheumatism which left him partially crippled and with serious heart weakness. He had begun to shake off the rheumatism when his wife died after two days' illness from pneumonia, and since then his health continued to be bad. He had gone to London on the day that he died to be present at the wedding of his daughter, and had arranged to leave Liverpool three days later for the British Associa-tion Meeting at Toronto.
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J., J. Sir William A. Herdman, F.R.S. Nature 114, 165–166 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114165a0
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