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WE deeply regret to announce the death, on August 31, at seventy-two years of age, of Dr. Theodor Albrecht, departmental chief in the Royal Prussian Geodetic Institute, Potsdam, and chief of the International Bureau for Investigating Latitude Variation since its inception in 1898. By his death, geodesy loses a painstaking and conscientious worker, who laboured zealously to unravel a complicated problem, and to carry forward the investigations so brilliantly inaugurated by the late Dr. Chandler. For many years he occupied himself with the study of the minute changes in the position of the earth's axis, and by his office had been mainly responsible for the methods of observation applied, and the trustworthiness of the results derived.
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Dr. T. Albrecht . Nature 96, 150 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096150a0
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