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MR. DAVID R. R. BURT, who has just been made professor of zoology in University College, Colombo, has had charge of his department since 1924, and has raised it from small beginnings to a school of more than a hundred students. Prof. Burt is a graduate of St. Andrews, and was at one time an assistant to Sir D'Arcy Thompson; he also worked under Hans Przibram in Vienna. He has studied, among other things, the very numerous cestode parasites of the Ceylon fauna. Some years ago he devised, and described in NATURE, a method of anatomical injection with rubber-latex which has great advantages and has come into everyday use, especially in America.
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Prof. D. R. R. Burt. Nature 145, 292 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145292c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145292c0