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ALFRED JAMES EWART, who died suddenly at his home near Melbourne on September 12, was the first professor of botany to be appointed in any Australasian university. Born at Liverpool on February 12, 1872, he was educated at Liverpool Institute and the University of Liverpool. He afterwards worked in the Universities of Leipzig (Ph.D.) and Oxford (D.Sc.). After a period as science master at the King Edward School, Bromsgrove, he became lecturer in botany at the Municipal Technical School and deputy professor in the University at Birmingham.
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O., T. Prof. A. J. Ewart, F.R.S. Nature 141, 17 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141017a0
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