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The recent appointment of Dr. Nicholas Polunin to the Macdonald professorship of botany in McGill University, Montreal, was an especially suitable one in that arctic botany has long been one of Dr. Polunin's chief interests and he has devoted special attention to the flora and ecology of north-eastern Canada. Since 1930 he has made several expeditions inside the Arctic Circle, ranging from Lapland and Spitsbergen in the east through Greenland to the territories covered by the Canadian Eastern Arctic Patrol. The Canadian Department of Mines and Resources has sponsored his work on “The Botany of the Canadian Eastern Arctic” to be published in four parts, three of which have already appeared.
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Botany at McGill University: Prof. Nicholas Polunin. Nature 160, 600 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160600a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160600a0