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J. W. BEWS was born at Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, in 1884, being the younger son of the late James Bews, of Berry Hill, Scapa, Orkney. From the Kirkwall Burgh School he entered the University of Edinburgh as Earl of Zetland bursar in 1902. After graduating, he was appointed lecturer in economic botany in the University of Manchester, but returned to Edinburgh in 1908 as lecturer in plant physiology and assistant professor of botany.
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HARRISON, J. Prof. J. W. Bews. Nature 142, 1066–1067 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421066b0
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