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AT the end of the present session Mr. George Sutton retires from the post of chief steward of the Department of Botany in the University of Manchester, after fifty-two years service. He began work in 1897 as a boy of thirteen under Prof. F. E. Weiss, at a time when the Department occupied a single room, ana the professor's assistant was F. W. (later Sir Frederick) Keeble. At his retirement Mr. Sutton leaves one of the largest departments in the country, which owes much to his loyal and skilled help. During his long service Mr. Sutton has won the friendship and gratitude of a succession of botanists, and no less than a dozen chairs are at present occupied by ex-students or ex-membsrs of staff of the Department. At an informal dinner held in Manchester on June 24, and attended by Prof. and Mrs. Weiss, a presentation was made to Mr. Sutton from more than a hundred past and present members of the Department of Botany.
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Botany at Manchester : Mr. George Sutton. Nature 164, 16 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164016c0
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