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the University of Edinburgh. is post he resigned a few 
months before his death on account of ill-health. 
The versatility of Professor Thomson’s attainments is shown b 
the variety of learned posts, all of which he filled with marked 
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the results were embodied by Thomson in a most attractive vol- 
ume entitled, “The Depths of the Sea,” by far the most interest- 
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problems suggested by similar expeditions Stimulated by the 
success hese two voyages of discovery th yal Society of 
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