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DR. JAMES ALLAN THOMSON, who passed away on May 6, was at the time of his death director of the Dominion Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, and also president of the New Zealand Institute. Notwithstanding ill health, he had a very distinguished career. He was the first New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, and went to St. John's College, Oxford, in 1906, where he was awarded the Burdett-Coutts Scholarship, and later he was appointed to a lectureship in geology at St. John's.
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F., C. DR. J. A. Thomson. Nature 121, 1027 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/1211027a0
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