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DR. C. W. WARDLAW, officer-in-charge of the Low Temperature Research Station, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, has been appointed to succeed Prof. Lang. Dr. Wardlaw graduated in 1921 with first-class honours in botany in the University of Glasgow and was immediately appointed assistant to the professor of botany, Prof. F. O. Bower. He carried on the Bower tradition with research on size and form in stellar structure and developed research and teaching in mycology at Glasgow. Three years later he took the Ph.D. of Glasgow and was appointed lecturer. He was sent to study mycology under Brown at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and also visited Prof. Chodat's summer school in Switzerland. He took his D.Sc. degree with papers on size and form and studies on the Lanarkshire strawberry disease. He was often called in as consultant on various diseases in Scotland. In 1929 Dr. Wardlaw was appointed mycologist at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, and undertook investigations into diseases of the banana. Later he took charge of the investigations of cold storage in particular reference to the mycological aspects, and has travelled a great deal in the West Indies and in the north of South America.
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Chair of Cryptogamic Botany at Manchester: Dr. C. W. Wardlaw. Nature 145, 543 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145543b0
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