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WITH the appointment of Dr. Irene Manton, at present lecturer in botany in the University of Manchester, to the chair of botany in Leeds, in succession to the late Prof. J. H. Priestley, the Leeds Department may be expected to maintain its record of scholarship and vigorous research activity. Although Dr. Manton's published work lies chiefly in the sphere of cytology, her extended studentship—Cambridge, with additional courses pursued in Switzerland and Spain—her subsequent tenure of postgraduate studentships (the Ethel Sargant and Yarrow) in Sweden, Germany, Cambridge and the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, and further collecting journeys to France, the Mediterranean and Egypt, entitle her to be regarded as a botanist of wide general experience. This, together with her long teaching experience at Manchester (1930–45) and her skill as a cytologist will, without doubt, be seen to advantage as the Leeds Department develops under her guidance.
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Chair of Botany at Leeds: Dr. Irene Manton. Nature 156, 230 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156230b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156230b0