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SIR FREDERICK KEEBLE was born in 1870. He was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, and Caius College, Cambridge. His botanical researches earned for him the degree of Sc.D. (Cantab.) and the F.R.S. In succession he has been professor of botany in University College, Reading (now the University of Reading), editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle, director of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley, controller of the Horticulture Food Production Department of the Board of Agriculture, an assistant secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Sherardian professor of botany at the University of Oxford, director of Nitram, Limited, and the adviser in agriculture to Imperial Chemical Industries. Limited. His contacts have been those of an accomplished scientific worker held in esteem by his fellows, a writer, a civil servant, an Oxford professor, a director of one of the units of the great industrial merger, Imperial Chemical Industries, the husband of one of the great tragedy actresses of our time and the neighbour of some of the most distinguished contemporary poets, archaeologists and scientific workers.
Polly and Freddie
By Sir F. W. Keeble. Pp. iv + 275. (London and Toronto: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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C., A. Polly and Freddie. Nature 138, 1035 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381035a0
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