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THE death on Jan. 26 of Prof. Archibald Leitch, director of the Research Institute of the Cancer Hospital, following in less than a year the loss of Dr. H. J. B. Fry of the same laboratory (see NATURE, May 31, 1930), leaves a woeful lacuna in the ranks of cancer research. Born in 1878, Leitch was educated at Rothesay Academy and the University of Glasgow, where he had a distinguished record in arts and medicine, graduating in 1902. He soon devoted himself to pathology, acting as assistant in the Cancer Research Laboratory of the Middlesex Hospital. From London he passed to Dundee as director of the Caird Research Laboratory, a post he occupied until his return to London as pathologist to the Cancer Hospital, becoming director of the Research Institute a few years before the War. During the War, Leitch was in charge of a Mobile Laboratory, retiring with the rank of Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.).
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MURRAY, J. Prof. A. Leitch. Nature 127, 206–207 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127206b0
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