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278 In Memoriam—jJohn Cordeaux. 
main facts derived from the inquiry have been made public. 
During all this period—now well nigh on to twenty years— 
Mr. Cordeaux acted as Secretary to the Committee, a post 
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which was no sinecure, especially during the years of the 
Committee’s active existence, 1880-1887 ; and it is not too much 
to say that he was the life and soul of the enquiry, while in later 
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Naturalist, 
