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THE untimely death of Miss A. T. Neilson on July 9 at the age of fifty-eight years has deprived the Geological Department of the University of Glasgow of a brilliant and beloved teacher of twenty-eight years' service. Miss Neilson was educated at the Glasgow High School for Girls, Royal Technical College, West of Scotland Agricultural College, and the University of Glasgow. She joined the staff of the Geological Department of the University in.1910, having previously worked in an unofficial capacity as curator in the Hunterian Museum. She retained her interest in the last-named institution until the end, and made many valuable additions to its mineral collections. Miss Neilson specialized in the teaching of crystallography and mineralogy ; and, in addition, was the chief organizer of the practical work of the Geological Department. The latter was a difficult and trying task, especially during the period, round about 1930, in which the numbers of the Part 1 class rose to more than four hundred ; but Miss Neilson discharged it in the most efficient and tactful manner and, in its performance, became guide, philosopher and friend to successive generations of students.
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T., G. Miss Agnes T. Neilson. Nature 142, 466–467 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142466b0
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