1916-17.] 
Obituaries. 
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George Smith, F.C.S., was born at Woolwich in 1851. He went through 
the School of Mines, and in 1879 entered the service, as Works Manager of 
their Westquarter Factory in Stirlingshire, of Nobel’s Explosives Company, 
and under his direction the factory grew in size and importance, and when 
Westquarter was no longer able to meet the demands placed on it a new 
factory was built at Linlithgow for powder fuse. He was a Fellow of the 
Institute of Chemistry, and was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1885. 
After his retirement he lived at Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea, where 
he died November 19, 1915. 
(Issued separately April 2, 1917.) 
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