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PROF. D. THODAY retires from the chair of botany at the University college of North Wales, Bangor, on September 30. After graduating at Cambridge, he carried out researches on photosynthesis under the late Dr. F. F. Blackman before going to the University of Manchester as lecturer. Thence he became professor of botany at Cape Town in 1918 and relurned to Bangor in 1923. Prof. Thoday has successfully combined arduous teaching duties with active research, in which he has made notable contributions in several fields—the water-relations of plants, plant development and differentiation, and the physiology of succulents. In South Africa he was much interested in the native plants, and several of his investigations concern them ; in this connexion he revised the genus Passerina. He was president of Section K of the British Association meeting at Dundee in 1939, when he gave a stimulating address on the interpretation of plant structure.
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Botany at Bangor : Prof. D. Thoday, F.R.S.. Nature 163, 354 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163354c0
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