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MR. D. N. LOWE, who has been appointed to succeed Dr. O. J. R. Howarth as secretary of the British Association (as already reported in Nature) after the first post-war meeting of the Association, is a Scot and is thirty-six years of age. As a Kitchener Scholar he studied at the University of St. Andrews, where he graduated M.A. (literature and history) and B.Sc. with first-class honours in botany. He was president of the Union, of the Students' Representative Council, and of the Mountaineering Club of the University. After a short period of research on the marine algæ of Fife, he was appointed assistant secretary of the British Association in 1935. Shortly after the outbreak of war he was seconded for national service. On the secretariat successively of the Ministry of Supply, the Ministry
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British Association Secretaryship: Mr. D. N. Lowe, O. B. E. Nature 157, 71 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157071b0
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