RUTHERFORD TO BE BURIED IN ABBEY
(Britisli Official Wireless.)
Famous N.Z. Scientist's Death
TRIBUTES TO HIS W0RK
(Received 21, 12.30 p.m.) RTJGBY, Oct. 20. Lord Rutherford 's burial -will take place at Westminster Abbey on October 25. Eminent scientists pay the highest tribute to Lord Rutherford 's worlc. Sir Oliver Lodge said tkat his death was a terrible loss to New Zealand and to the whole world. Sir Josepk Thomson. Master of Trinity College, Gambridge, said that his death was one of the greatest losses that had ever oecurred to British science. Sir William Bragg, president of the Royal Society, said: "In every place where learning is honoured there will be sadness and a sense of heavy loss. Eis noble contributions to knowledge have been the inspiration of innumerabel workers and the foundation for- a vast series of researches. ' ' Members of the family will visit the Abbey to-morrow to discuss the burial place. The likeliest spot is in the Nojth Nave, near the organ screen, where the tombs of Newton, Kelvin, Darwin and Hershel are'situated, _ « ■ — — —
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 24, 21 October 1937, Page 5
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