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CAMBRIDGE.—At a meeting of the master and fellows of St. Catharine's College, held on October 19, Prof. R. H. Biffen, of Emmanuel College, was elected to the vacant professorial fellowship. Prof. Biffen, who was a scholar of Emmanuel College, was placed in the first class, in part i. of the natural sciences tripos in 1895, and in the first class in part ii. of the same tripos in the following year. Shortly after taking his degree he was elected to the Frank Smart studentship at Gonville and Caius College, and soon afterwards he undertook a research which greatly modified the process of the manufacture of india-rubber. Later, as professor of agricultural botany, he has done much to produce new wheats, some of them rust-resisting, others combining a high yield with the “strength” which bakers desire. This autumn, for the first time, the seeds of these wheats are being distributed to agriculturists. Prof. Biffen is also a, well-known authority on fungoid diseases of plants.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 81, 508–509 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081508a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/081508a0