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WE regret to record the death of Prof. J. H. Salter on August 5 at the age of eighty-one. John Henry Salter was born in Westleton, Suffolk, on June 5, 1862. In 1869 his father died, and the family moved first to Woodbridge, and then to Scarborough. Dr. Salter attended Ackworth School and afterwards became an apprentice master at the school and studied at Flounders College. He graduated B.Sc. London, and taught at various schools during 1881-88. He then proceeded to Dalton Hall, Manchester, to read botany under Prof. Williamson and Mr. Hick at Owens College. In 1891 he demonstrated at University College, London, for a short time and was later appointed as the first professor of botany at Aberystwyth, under Principal T. F. Roberts. Obtaining a year's leave of absence in 1896, he went to Bonn and worked under Strasburger. He was replaced at Aberystwyth during this time by Keeble (later, Sir Frederick Keeble).
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NEWTON, L. Prof. J. H. Salter. Nature 150, 314–315 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150314b0
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