John Hutchinson, 7 April 1884 - 2 September 1972

C. E. Hubbard

DOI:10.1098/RSBM.1975.0009

Corpus ID: 85985378

John Hutchinson, 7 April 1884 - 2 September 1972

@article{Hubbard1975JohnH7,
  title={John Hutchinson, 7 April 1884 - 2 September 1972},
  author={C. E. Hubbard},
  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1975},
  pages={345 - 365}
}

C. E. Hubbard

Published 1975

Biology

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The death of John Hutchinson on 2 September 1972, at the age of 88, removed an international and highly esteemed authority from the ranks of botanical systematists, and the last of the Kew staff with living memories of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. He died at the close of a working day, much as he would have wished, after he had made his usual happy visit to the Kew Herbarium. There he was among the plants he loved, in a building which had been almost a second home for him for more than sixty years… CONTINUE READING

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