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THE death of Mr. W. C. F. Newton, on Dec. 22, at the age of thirty-two years, takes away a young worker of rare quality in a field that has been but sparsely cultivated in Great Britain-cytology and its bearing upon genetics. Newton was a student at the Birkbeck College, but his course was interrupted by war service (he received the Mons medal) and he did not take his degree until 1921. With a scholarship from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, he continued to work at the Birkbeck under Dame Helen GwynneVaughan, and began to investigate the chromosomes of Galtonia, a paper on which appeared in the Annals of Botany for 1924.
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H., A. Mr. W. C. F. Newton. Nature 121, 27–28 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121027b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121027b0