Abstract
THE many friends and scientific colleagues of Dr. R. G. Hatton will leaxrfjyith regret of his resignation from the directorship of the East Mailing Research Station for reasons of ill-health. For some years he has been far froth well and, though advised medically to take tilings more easily, Hatton is not the man to let up on his work if he is physically capable of to his office. Born in 1886, he is a Balliol man after graduating, decided his interests lay in agriculture a ad horticulture ; and he went to Wye College, later becoming acting-director during the First World War of what was then the College‘s Fruit Experimental Station at East Mailing. When it became an independent research station in 1918, Hatton was its first director, and it is to his personal energy, vision and administrative ability that the Station owes its present position as one of the foremost horticultural research centres of the world. His own work on the sorting-out and classification of fruit-tree rootstocks would alone justify his high position in science and his fame among fruit-growers in all countries. Apart from his many scientific writings, Hatton, in his early years, made one excursion into general literature. His delightful "Folk of the Furrow" was published in 1913 under the pen name of "Christopher Holdenby", and it was many years before even his closest friends knew that he was the author.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
East Mailing Research Station : Dr. R. G. Hatton, C.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 163, 14 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163014b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163014b0