Francis Norman Cooper died on March 6th, 1912, aged 26, as the result of an operation for appendicitis, his fatal illness being of only three days’ duration.
He received his technical training in Mr. G.T. Holloway’s laboratories, first as laboratory assistant and afterwards as assistant assayer. In 1903 he went on a prospecting expedition in Abyssinia, and in 1905 he took the post of assayer to the Lake View Consols Co. in Peru and Bolivia. From 1906 to 1909 he was occupied in prospecting in French Guinea.
Mr. Cooper was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 21, Trans I.M.M. 1911-12, p. 722
