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PROF. F. J. LEWIS has recently retired from the chair of botany in the Fouad I University, Cairo, which he has held since 1935. A graduate of the University of Liverpool, he devoted himself to ecological investigations and published a number of important papers on the post-glacial beds of the peat mosses of the north of England and also of Scotland. He gave up his lectureship in Liverpool to beebme professor in the newly founded university of Alberta, where he continued his ecological work, relating it to the rigorous climatic conditions of Canada. It must have been a great change for him to settle in Egypt; but new opportunities for ecological investigations presented themselves and led him to the establishment of a desert laboratory some little distance from Cairo. Very different problems also presented themselves by the accumulation of weeds blocking the canals and drains of the Nile Delta. With the help of two of his assistants, he undertook to investigate for the Ministry of Public Works this serious interference with the system of irrigation.
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Botany at the Fouad I University, Cairo: Prof. F. J. Lewis. Nature 158, 124–125 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158124c0
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