Dr. Richard Garnett, whose death at the age of seventy-one
was announced last Saturday, was an admirable specimen of the unselfish scholar who amasses learning only to impart it as widely and freely as possible to his fellows. He had spent upwards of fifty years in the service of the British Museum, and few men have done more to render that great storehouse of culture accessible to the public. His vast erudition was untainted by pedantry, as the graceful quality of his original work shows, while his nature was of that benevolent type which at once converts acquaintances into friends. We also note with deep regret the premature death through a street accident, at the early age of forty-seven, of M. Curie, the famous French savant, and co-partner with his wife in the epoch-making discovery of radium.
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