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DR. C. H. O'DONOGHUE has boen appointed to the chair of zoology in the University of Reading in succession to Prof. F. J. Cole (see NATURE of March 4, p. 368). After graduating with first-class honours in zoology and physiology from King's College, London, he was appointed lecturer in zoology at University College. He obtained tho D.Sc. degree in 1912, was awarded a Beit Memorial Scholarship for research and spent six months studying at Freiburg under Prof. F. Doflein. In 1918 ho went to Canada as professor of zoology in the University of Manitoba, and in 1923 acted as director of the Marine Biological Station at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. For two terms he was visiting professor at Stanford University, California. He was also appointed by the Canadian Government for two years as head of a scientific expedition to Jasper Park in the Rocky Mountains. As a member of tho Research Committee of the Biological Board of Canada, he helped to establish the Prince Rupert and Cultus Lake Stations. In 1927 he returned to Great Britain at the invitation of the late Prof. J. H. Ashworth, to become senior lecturer and later reader in zoology in the University of Edinburgh. In 1932 he was awarded the Neill Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and he was president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh in 1933. His research covers a wide field, but is chiefly concerned with the taxonomy of the Bryozoa and Nudibranchia, and with vertebrate anatomy, physiology and embryology.
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Dr. C. H. O'Donoghue. Nature 143, 510 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143510a0
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