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PROF. MARGARET BENSON, whose death on Saturday, June 20, is mourned by a wide circle of friends, is known best to botanists as one of the leading palaeophytologists of the last generation. Much of her early work on fossils, which began about 1904, has long been incorporated into the text-books; but it is only a year since she published her last paper on the subject. Her best work was done at a time when the technique of fossil cutting was in its infancy, and for years she cut her own sections at a small lapidary bench in a shed in the grounds of the Royal Holloway College, with a cutting machine worked by a gas engine. She left her valuable collection of fossil slides to the College.
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B., E. Prof. Margaret Benson. Nature 138, 17 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138017a0
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