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ABSTRACT BY the death of Sir Lazarus Fletcher, mineralogy loses one who for a long period was recognised as the leading exponent of that branch of science in this country. Born at Salford on
March 3, 1854, Sir Lazarus died suddenly from heart failure at Grange-over-Sands on January 6 in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, and
tuary. afterwards at Balliol College, Oxford, where he held the Braekenbury science scholarship. He I obtained first-class honours in mathematical moderations and in the final schools of
mathematics and natural science. From 1875–77 he served as demonstrator in physics under Prof. Clifton at the Clarendon Laboratory, and for the next two years he held the Millard lectureship
in physics at Trinity College, Oxford. From 1877–80 he was a fellow of University College, Oxford. While at the Clarendon Laboratory he became interested in the study of crystals, and, as
the result, when, in 1878, Mr. W. J. Lewis (now professor of mineralogy at Cambridge) retired, owing to ill-health, from the assistantship which he held in the mineral department of the
British Museum, Prof. Story-Maskelyne, who was then keeper of minerals, induced Fletcher to apply for the post. He obtained it, and only two years later succeeded to the keepership. ARTICLE
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