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FOR nineteen years Sir Arthur Hill held with outstanding success an official position which developments of the science of botany have made very exacting. In the middle of last century the expansion of the Empire had confirmed the commanding position of Great Britain in systematic botany: Kew was its centre, and the Hookers its leading figures. But the study of botany in the universities was at a low ebb. The publication of the “Origin of Species” led to that revival of interest in the morphology and physiology of animals and plants which sprang up at South Kensington under Huxley and Thiselton–Dyer.
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BOWER, F. Sir Arthur Hill, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. Nature 148, 622 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148622a0
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