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WITH the appointment to the mastership of Birkbeck College, London, of Prof. H. Gordon Jackson, who has been head of the Zoology Department there since 1921 and professor since 1928, the Governors seem to have followed a similar course as, towards the end of the War of 1914-18, when the late Dr. Senter was appointed to that position. Thus during the important period of reconstruction which the College looks forward to after the War, there will be in charge one who is familiar with the rather special conditions which obtain there. To zoologists Prof. Jackson is best known for his numerous papers on the systematics of the terrestrial Isopod Crustacea and on the comparative anatomy of the Isopod head ; but his colleagues are familiar, too, with the imperturbable good humour, the careful planning and the absolute fairness with which he has presided over numerous bodies in his College and University, while large numbers of former students recall with great enjoyment the lucidity and wit of his lectures, and his uncanny knack of selecting precisely the most apt metaphor or simile for driving home a point of difficulty. In view of the damage sustained by the College during the raids of 1940-41 and the part which Birkbeck College is bound to play in University education after the War, the transfer of the College to the Bloomsbury site is one of its most urgent problems. Prof. Jackson's many high qualities will, we feel, ensure an early solution.
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New Master of Birkbeck College: Prof. H. Gordon Jackson. Nature 152, 531–532 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152531c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152531c0