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DR. F. W. JANE, who has recently been appointed to the newly created chair of botany at the Royal Holloway College, London, has accordingly resigned the readership in botany which he held at University College, London. Dr. Jane's scientific work has been noteworthy for the variety of its interest. It has dealt particularly with the smaller algæ and with the structure and properties of wood. He has consideranly enlarged our knowledge of the Chrysomonadineæ and Volvocales, as well as promoting research among other algal types and more recently in algal ecology. His interest in wood has centred on its structural properties and on problems associated with timber utilization. Dr. Jane recently visited West Africa to study certain forest areas and timber trees in the Gold Coast, and he has conducted courses on the structure and properties of timber and cognate subjects at London, Oxford and Cambridge for the Timber Development Association's new national education scheme. Dr. Jane is widely known outside university circles in the vicinity of London as one of the leading all-round naturalists, possessing a detailed knowledge of birds and beasts which rivals his interest in field botany. He has long been editor of the Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and was also president of the Essex Field Club. He has taken a great interest in Blakeney Point, Norfolk, where he has been supervising and continuing the work started at the field laboratory by Prof. F. W. Oliver.
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Botany at the Royal Holloway College, London: Dr. F. W. Jane. Nature 164, 431 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164431a0
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