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AFTER many valiant aerial combats, which won him the Distinguished Service Cross and a mention in dispatches, William Neil Paton was reported missing off Malta in June last and has now been officially presumed killed. Marine biology has lost a recruit of great promise. Born in September 1914, the second son of Dr. and Mrs. J. Hunter P. Paton of St. Andrews, he was educated at Oundle and Magdalen College, Oxford. After graduating in 1937 he joined the Oxford University Expedition to Grand Cayman and returned in the following summer with a rich zoological collection. He then joined me in experimental work on the vertical migration of the marine plankton being carried out at the Millport Marine Station and was later appointed to the research staff of the Station.
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HARDY, A. Lieut. W. Neil Paton, D. S. C., R. N. V. R. Nature 151, 48–49 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151048b0
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