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THE University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has conferred the honorary degree of D.Sc. on Mr. N. E. Brown, formerly assistant in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in recognition of his work on the South African flora. At the request of the Moss professor of botany in the University, and to mark the conferment of the degree, Sir Arthur Hill formally presented Dr. Brown to his old colleagues in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on March 19. In the course of a short address, Sir Arthur said: “Dr. Brown was on our staff for forty-one years, from 1873 until 1914. He was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1879, and in 1921 he received the Senior Captain Scott Medal for scientific research in South Africa from the South African Biological Society. I need not detail his many contributions to South African botany, as they are so well known to all botanists, but it is interesting to record that the following eminent South African botanists warmly supported the proposal that Dr. Brown should be honoured by South Africa: Gen. the Right. Hon. J. C. Smuts, Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, Prof. J. W. Bews, Prof. R. S. Adamson, Prof. R. H. Compton, and Dr. John Muir.”
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Dr. N. E. Brown. Nature 129, 500 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129500b0
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