Abstract
BOTANISTS in particular will have read with pleasure that one of their number, Prof. Eric Ashby, Harrison professor of botany in the University of Manchester, has been invited by the Senate of Queen's University, Belfast, to accept the post of president and vice-chancellor—a worthy choice for a varied and exacting office. Prof. Ashby, who is forty-five, was a student at the Imperial College of Science and Technology and is a graduate of the University of London. His interest in plant physiology, genetics, statistical ecology and in the progress of botanical science generally, has taken him in turn to the United States (Universities of Chicago and Arizona) as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow in 1929, to a resumption of teaching and research at the Imperial College in 1931, to the University of Bristol as reader in botany in 1935, to the University of Sydney as professor of botany in 1938, and to the University of Manchester in 1946. These years saw the publication of several important series of papers in botanical journals, addresses on a variety of subjects, and a number of books including the thought-provoking work “Challenge to Education".
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
President and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University, Belfast: Prof. Eric Ashby. Nature 164, 689 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164689a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164689a0