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WE regret to record the tragic death on January 10 at the age of thirty-four years of Alan McBain, assistant in potato virus research at the Scottish Plant Breeding Station. His published work dealt with the physiological side of the subject, and had he lived he would have made a permanent name for himself in this kind of investigation. McBain was by training and inclination a particularly able physiological chemist, and it was a pleasure to watch him at work in a laboratory. He was never at a loss when confronted with some practical difficulty, and he had few equals when it came to a question of erecting or improvising new apparatus.
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W., E. Mr. A. M. McBain. Nature 137, 217 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137217b0
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