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VICTOR BRANFORD, whose death on June 22 is widely regretted, was of an old East Anglian family; and his ancestry included descent from a sister of Sir Isaac Newton. In hard times his father had to part with his property, and he applied himself ably to a veterinary career, first as professor in Edinburgh, and then as consulting expert to the Army at the Cape. Victor and two of his brothers were so distinguished in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh as to be advised by Prof. Chrystal to take up that career; but he next took to chemistry and then to zoology and botany, and was for several years a successful coach. He also took active interest in the surveys of Edinburgh and Scotland then beginning at the Outlook Tower as a school and laboratory of social studies, and mainly prepared its comprehensive and comparative chart of general history.
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G., P. Mr. Victor Branford. Nature 126, 103 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126103a0
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