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Nonfiction: Charles Vernon Boys.

Source: Used in the menu card for the dinner of the Royal Society Club in honor of Boys's 80th birthday, 1935. Reproduced in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 4, No. 13 (Nov., 1944), p. 772.

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External links

• C. V. Boys @ Wikipedia

Attribution

• By A. C. Cooper - Used in the menu card for the dinner of the Royal Society Club in honour of Boys's 80th birthday, 1935. Reproduced in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 4, No. 13 (Nov., 1944), p. 772., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17331817