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PROF. HARRY RICHARD BRITON-JONES IT whose untimely death occurred in Trinidad on November 3, following an operation for appendicitis, will be mourned by a wide circle of friends, scientific colleagues and past and present students of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. He was born in 1893 and educated at Llandovery College, of which he was a scholar. He entered King's College, London, in 1912, proceeding to the Royal College of Science in 1913, where he took the associateship and, later, the diploma of the Imperial College. In 1915 he was commissioned in the R.G.A. and he gained the M.C. on active service, being eventually invalided from shell-shock, with the^rank of captain. Attracted to the study of plant diseases, he re-entered the Royal College of Science to equip himself for phytopathological research; a short period was also spent at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in systematic study of the fungi parasitic on plants.
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B., E. Prof. H. R. Briton-Jones. Nature 138, 913 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138913a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138913a0