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IN September Prof. H. J. Fleure will retire from the chair of geography in the University of Manchester. He has held it since 1930, when he vacated the chair of geography and anthropology in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. During his tenure of the Manchester chair, Prof. Fleure has built up one of the strongest university schools of geography in Great Britain, and has increased the debt of which all who realize the significance of his subject in higher education were already conscious. He has combined to a remarkable degree unceasing efforts to raise the standard of geographical teaching in every branch of education with the continuous prosecution of active research. As honorary secretary of the Geographical Association and editor of Geography for twenty-five years, he has inspired many generations of teachers and greatly increased the facilities for the development of their subject in the schools. At the same time, his wide range of erudition, ripe scholarship and fertility of ideas, as exemplified in the illuminating series called "The Corridors of Time", which he wrote in collaboration with Mr. H. J. E. Peake, have earned him a high place in the field of investigation, which was fittingly recognized a few years ago by his election to the fellowship of the Royal Society. No scholar in Great Britain has done more to justify the claims of human geography, closely linked with both the natural sciences and the humanities but pursuing its own distinct objectives and devising its own technique and methods, to be one of the most illuminating approaches to the study of civilization and its problems.
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Chair of Geography at Manchester: Prof. H. J. Fleure, F.R.S.. Nature 153, 489 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153489c0
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