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WILLIAM HAY CALDWELL died at Morar Lodge, Inverness–shire, on August 28. In the 'eighties he was notable as an original young Cambridge zoologist who had revolutionized the process of cutting paraffin sections. Born at Portobello in 1859, he went from Loretto to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1877, and attended Francis Maitland Balfour's lectures on animal morphology. He was scholar of his College during 1878–83, and obtained a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1881, beside Walter Gardiner the botanist, who survived him three days1. Research on the development of Phoronis occupied his first graduate year, which was marred by Balfour's untimely death on the Alps (July 1882)—thirty years old and of worldwide reputation.
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BIDDER, G. Mr. W. H. Caldwell. Nature 148, 557–559 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148557a0
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