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SQUADRON-LEADER DAVID L. LINTON, who succeeds Prof. Rudmose Brown at Sheffield, is thirty-eight years old, and was well known in British geographical science before the War. He had been an exceptionally distinguished student at King's College, London; and after a period on the staff of the Geography Department there, he became a lecturer in geography under Prof. A. G. Ogilvie at the University of Edinburgh. His published researches into the relations between land forms and river drainage brought him (jointly with his collaborator, Prof. S. W. Wooldridge) the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society; and besides other work on geomorphology he has published studies in historical, general and economic geography. His teaching experience is also wide. Before the War he was secretary to the Geography Section of the British Association, and on the Council of the Institute of British Geographers and that of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. His service with the R.A.F.V.R., in which he won successive promotion to squadron-leader, has been in photographic intelligence, in which he is in charge of a H.Q. Department.
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Squadron-Leader David L. Linton. Nature 156, 106–107 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156106d0
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