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THE death announced on June 24 at the age of seventy-three of Prof. Bertram H. Bentley, emeritus Hrofessor of botany in the University of Shaffiett.. A scholar of Keble College, Oxford, Prof. B secured a first class in natural sciences in 1896. Going to Sheffield as assistant lecturer in biology in Firth College, he helped to mould the fortunes of the young university and served it until his retirement in 1939. As the number of botany students under his care increased, he was appointed lecturer in botany in 1905 and eventually became head of a newly formed Department of Botany; but it was not until 1931 that the University appointed him to a full professorship.
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Prof. B. H. Bentley. Nature 158, 263–264 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158263b0
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