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THE Court of the University of Aberdeen has accepted the resignation of Prof. Alexander Low, regius professor of anatomy in the University, to take effect on September 30. Prof. Low has occupied the chair since 1925, when he succeeded Prof. Robert Reid, whose assistant he had been for many years. Born in 1868, he was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School and in the University of Aberdeen, afterwards studying at Freiburg, Vienna and Zurich. His association with Aberdeen as student and teacher covers a period of more than fifty-two years. In his professional studies, Prof. Low has specialized in anthropology and embryology, and has contributed a considerable number of papers to the journals of learned societies in anatomy, anthropology and embryology. He was one of the original members of the Aberdeen University Anthropological Society, to which British archaeology is indebted for its contributions by excavation to early studies of the osteology of the 'beaker-folk'. For many years Prof. Low has been an active member of the anthropological section of the British Association.
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Prof. Alexander Low. Nature 141, 504–505 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141504d0
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