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ON June 23 there died at Cape Town, at the age of seventy-four, one to whom South Africa owes much in regard to geological discovery, description and application. A. W. Rogers was born at Bishops Hull, Somerset, and educated at Clifton College and Christ College, Cambridge—of which he was later electe an honorary fellow—and also studied at the University of Heidelberg. In 1896 he became assistant geologist to the Geological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope, director of the Commission in 1903, and director of the Geological Survey of the Union from 1916 until his retirement in 1932. His thirty-six years of sterling service with the Government were divided equally between the Cape and Transvaal provinces.
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DE TOIT, A. Dr. Arthur W. Rogers, F.R.S. Nature 158, 407 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158407a0
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