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THE death of Donald Ward Cutler, head of the Microbiological Department at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, came as a sudden and unexpected shock to his colleagues. He had been at his work as usual, then was suddenly struck down with pneumonia and survived only a few days. He was trained in zoology at Cambridge under Prof. Stanley Gardiner, and after his happy and successful undergraduate years at Queens' College he went to the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth to investigate fish scales. In 1915 he joined Prof. S. J. Hickson's staff at Manchester, where his gift for lecturing and for teaching made him a useful member of the department; in his free time he studied the Protozoa of termites. A weak heart prevented his being accepted for active service, but he gave valuable help in the Pathological Department set up for the Manchester war hospitals and became an expert on amœbic dysentery.
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RUSSELL, E. Mr. D. Ward Cutler. Nature 147, 200 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147200a0
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