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MR. WILLIAM DALLIMORE retired from the post of keeper of the Museums at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on March 31, having reached the age-limit after more than forty-five years' connexion with Kew. Mr. Dallimore entered Kew as a student gardener in 1891. He was appointed propagator in the Arboretum in 1892 and assistant curator (at that time called foreman) in 1896. In 1908 he was transferred to the Museums as assistant, and became keeper in 1926. Mr. Dallimore's exceptionally wide knowledge of arboriculture has been of great service to Kew, especially in connexion with the planning and administration of the National Pinetum at Bedge-bury, which he will continue to supervise during his retirement. Dr. John Hutchinson, botanist in the Herbarium, has been appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to be keeper of the Museums in succession to Mr. Dallimore.
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Mr. W. Dallimore. Nature 137, 976 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137976c0
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