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MR. W. C. Moore has been appointed to the post of director of the Plant Pathology Laboratory of the Ministry of griculture and Fisheries at Harpenden, on the riterement of Mr. C. T. Gimingham. Mr. Moore received his early education at Sexey's School, Brute whence he joined Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1919, becoming a major scholar in 1921. After graduation he remained at the Cambridge Botany School to participate in the investigations on silver-leaf disease of fruit trees then in progress. He joined the staff of the Plant Pathology Laboratory in 1925 as assistant in mycology, becoming mycologist in 1944 and deputy director in 1948. During his official career he has been in the closest touch with other British plant pathologists, especially those in the advisory services, whose work he has greatly fostered and assisted. Not infrequently he has suggested problems for investigation. Latterly, he has been responsible for editing a series of valuable reports on the incidence of plant diseases in England and Wales. He has taken a principal part in preparing the excellent leaflets on the diseases of economic plants issued by the Ministry. Notwithstanding heavy administrative duties he has continued his own researches (chiefly on little-known diseases), the results of which have been mostly published in the Transactions of the British Mycplogical Society. Noteworthy, too, is his bulletin on the "Diseases of Bulbs", published in 1939, which is an important contribution to plant pathological literature. He was president of the British Mycological Society in 1941 and of the Association of Applied Biologists in 1947-48. Mr. Moore is a keen gardener, and the practice of this art has been not without influence on his career as a plant pathologist.
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Plant Pathology Laboratory : Mr. W. C. Moore. Nature 163, 902 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163902b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163902b0