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CONGRATULATIONS and good wishes are offered to Dr. George Claridge Druce, who will be eighty years of age on May 23. The story of his earlier years has been told by Dr. Druce himself in the introduction to the “Flora of Buckinghamshire” (1926), the third of his series of floras descriptive of the Thames valley counties. The autobiography tells of difficulties successfully overcome by hard work and perseverance, and is an interesting record of the zeal and industry with which from early boyhood Dr. Druce has, almost literally, pursued the study of our British flora, and has gained a knowledge of the rarer plants in their native habitats which is unique. This has been achieved in the intervals of an exacting business lifeâ that of a pharmaceutical chemist. For many years Dr. Druce has been honorary curator of the Fielding Herbarium at Oxford, and, in association with a former professor, Dr. S. H. Vines, has published accounts of the historic collections at the University, notably the Dillenian and Morrisonian herbaria. The field botanist is indebted to him for a modern edition of the best used handbook on British plants—Hay ward's “Botanist's Pocket-Book”—and Dr. Druce has also himself compiled a “List of British Plants”.
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News and Views. Nature 125, 752–757 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125752a0
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