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THE Barker chair of cryptogamic botany in the University of Manchester will be vacated at the end of the academic year by its present tenant, Prof. W. H. Lang. His successor has been appointed in the person of Dr. Claud Wardlaw, officer in charge of the Low Temperature Research Station at Trinidad. He is expected to take up his duties in the autumn. The founder of the Barker chair was himself an expert in the study of mosses: and his aim was to secure not merely instruction, but also general research upon those lower forms of plant life which the title of the chair connotes. In order to secure this double result, such periods of advanced teaching as are demanded from the professor are limited, thus leaving opportunity for research to him and to his pupils.
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Chair of Cryptogamic Botany at Manchester: Prof. W. H. Lang, F.R.S. Nature 145, 543 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145543a0
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