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THE Sherardian chair of botany in the University of Oxford has been filled by the appointment of Prof. T. G. B. Osborn, at present professor of botany in the University of Sydney. Prof. Osborn graduated in 1908 in the University of Manchester with first-class honours. His exceptional abilities were recognized by his immediate appointment to a lectureship in economic botany in Manchester which he held until 1912, when he was elected professor of botany, vegetable pathology and parasitology in the University of Adelaide. The excellence of his teaching and the energy with which he threw himself into his academic work is attested by the fact that when he left Adelaide in 1927, large and commodious laboratories had been built as well as an experimental greenhouse. While in Adelaide, Osborn acted as consulting botanist to the Government of South Australia and in furtherance of the pastoral interests of the country he established a field laboratory at Koonamore, some two hundred miles north of Adelaide, where he and his assistants could study the vegetation of an arid region and make useful suggestions to the grazing interests. Certain pastoralists interested in this ecological work which Prof. Osborn was carrying on presented an area of 1,200 acres to the University to extend these investigations.
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Prof. T. G. B. Osborn. Nature 139, 746 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139746a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139746a0