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THE following five biologists were elected foreign members of the Linnean Society of London at the general meeting on May 11: Prof. Alfred Ernst, director of the Institute of General Botany in the University of Zurich, distinguished for his work on apogamy in plants and related subjects, and for his fundamental investigations on heterostyly in Primulacese and tropical Rubiaceae. His monograph on the new flora of the volcanic island of Krakatau was translated into English more than thirty years ago. Dr. William King Gregory, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, distinguished for his researches on the morphology and evolution of the vertebrate skull and locomotor systems, the evolution of mammalian molar teeth, the phylogeny of fish skulls and the origin of man. Dr. William Marins Docters van Leeuwen, formerly director of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, distinguished for his work on galls and the various relations between plants and insects, on the regeneration of vegetation on lava and the biology of plants on mountain tops. His recent “Biology of Plants and Animals occurring in the Higher Parts of Mount Pangrango-Gedeh in West Java” and “Krakatau 1883-1933” are outstanding contributions to tropical botany.
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The Linnean Society: New Foreign Members. Nature 143, 846–847 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143846c0
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