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ON December 16, Prof. Douglas H. Campbell, emeritus professor of botany in Stanford University, California, will attain his eightieth birthday. His repeated presence as a foreign guest at meetings of the British Association has passed him almost as one of ourselves. His many friends among British botanists will wish to congratulate him on carrying as a light burden his tale of years. the nature and extent of his researches brought him early into prominence. Having learned Continental methods of research in the laboratory of Kny, his own fine memoir on the Ostrich fern(1887) opened that long series of researches, the results of which he compressed into the well-known volume on “Mosses and Ferns” (1895). This book ran into its third edition in 1918. In point of detailed observation of archegoniate. plants, and particularly of their development, Campbell thus proved himself a most prolific observer.
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Prof. D. H. Campbell. Nature 144, 972 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144972a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144972a0