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THE tragic loss, through an aeroplane disaster, of Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, Director of the Tsetse Research Department, and of Mr. B. D. Burtt, botanist to the Department, robs East Africa, at one blow, both of a distinguished zoologist and administrator and of a field worker who had a more intimate knowledge of the vegetation of Tanganyika, and probably of East Tropical Africa as a whole, than any other living botanist. The loss is the greater since news had just been received that the work of the Department was to be extended.
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C., A. Mr. B. D. Burtt. Nature 142, 199 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142199a0
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