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Botanists, agriculturists and many others will learn with regret that Sir Albert Howard died in London on October 20. He was born in 1873 and educated at the Royal College of Science and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar. Here he worked under Marshall Ward, who was then attracting a brilliant group of students to some of the newer aspects of botanical science, and after taking first-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1898, he proceeded in 1899 to the Imperial Agricultural Department for the West Indies, then newly established with the purpose of applying science to the difficult problems raised by the threatened collapse of the sugar-growing industry there. In 1903 he returned to England to succeed F. Escombe as head of the Botanical Department of the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent. He was not, however, entirely happy at Wye, and left in 1905 to become Imperial Economic Botanist to the Government of India, where for the first time he found full scope.
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RUSSELL, E. Sir Albert Howard, C.I.E. Nature 160, 741–742 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160741a0
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