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PROF. DIXON'S successor is Dr. D. A. Webb ; a scholar of equally wide cultural interests. After graduation at Trinity College, Dublin, he went to Trinity College, Dublin, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained the degree of Ph.D. for a thesis on the "Distribution of Metals in the Tissues of Marine Animals". This biochemical and zoological research at the outset of his career gave place to experimental and field research in botany when he returned to Dublin as lecturer in Dixon's department. He published a students' Flora of Ireland, and initiated important research work upon the calcicole habit, upon the ecology of areas of western Ireland, and upon the critical taxonomy of certain groups of flowering plants such as the dactyloid saxifrages. He was joint organiser of the very successful International Phytogeographic Excursion to Eire this year, and it is apparent that moderr field studies in, Ireland will be profitably expanded under his guidance at Trinity College.
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Dr. D. A. Webb. Nature 164, 947–948 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164947e0
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