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I.—Eminent Living Geologists: Rev. Osmond Fisher, M.A., F.G.S.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The subject of this notice belongs to a family of which several members have occupied high positions as clergymen and scholars. His father, the Ven. John Fisher, the early friend and patron of Constable, was Archdeacon of Berks, Canon of Salisbury, and Vicar of Osmington and Gillingham in Dorset; his grandfather, the Rev. Philip Fisher, D.D., was Master of the Charterhouse; and his great-uncle, the Rev. John Fisher, was preceptor to the Princess Charlotte, and subsequently Bishop, first of Exeter and afterwards of Salisbury.
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page 50 note 1 Some of the facts above given are, by the kind permission of the anonymous author, taken from an article in the Cambridge Review, March 16, 1893.
page 52 note 1 At present he regards the solidity or otherwise of the nucleus an open question.
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