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DR. CYRIL LUCOKES WITHYCOMBE, lecturer in advanced and applied entomology, died at Cambridge on December 5, aged twenty-eight years. Born at Walthamstow, the son of a schoolmaster, he early developed a peculiar taste and power for the keeping and rearing of insects, and this indicated his career. He passed his Intermediate Science Examination from Birkbeck College, and then went on to King's College, where he came under the influence of the late Prof. Dendy and of Dr. Mackinnon, on whose advice, with the object of broadening his science, he took the ordinary degree in botany, chemistry, and zoology instead of honours in one subject. He then went to the Imperial College to work under the late Prof. Lefroy, who regarded him as by far the best pupil he ever had.
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G., J. Dr. C. L. Withycombe. Nature 119, 131–132 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119131a0
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