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DR. P. W. RICHARDS university lecturer and former fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed to susceed Prof. Thoday in the chair of botany at Bangor. His chief interests are in plant ecology and the Bryophyta, and he will have abundant opportunity for their pursuit in one of the richest regions of Great Britain for such studies. Dr. Richards has been a valuable member of the staff of the Cambridge Botany School since 1937, where he has been responsible for the organisation of the practical classes for first- and second-year students and has taken a principal part in lecturing to them. A noteworthy feature"of his teaching has been his wide outlook and his insistence on the study of plants in the field ; in this connexion he has conducted many vacation classes in the Lake District and elsewhere. He is one of the editors of the Ecological Society's "Biological Flora of the British Isles", and has encouraged much research on interesting plants.
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Prof. P. W. Richards. Nature 163, 354–355 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163354d0
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