REFERENCE
Confidential Acks
BOTANY SCHOOL,
CAMBRIDGE.
Sd7 aug. 1928
Biology
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University of Hong Kong: Reader in CA. to 342-3
answer
isu
C.A.4
Dear Sir
Owing to
your
my letter of 21 July
absence abroad I have not been able to
until now.
very
well qualified for
He worked under
my
supervision for two
years
as
a
post graduate research
I consider W (.A.C. Herklots
this Readership in Biology.
student in Botany and carried out successful work
plant physiology for which he was awarded the Ph.D.
at that time that he had
on
degree.
a very
It was
obrans
and a
his un
his
wide interest in other aspects of Botany good general Knowledge of Biology. Since then he has had teaching experience in deed's University
When he was war
ing here I was struck by umal personality - immensely full of vitality, ven and ingenuous in temperament. interest in his fellow mortals life. Sociological cutlook on
think that,
1
, very young
He took a
great
and had a serious
altogether, I should
on the human side, he would be partic-
wharly well fitted for this post
Your very truly
J. I Blackman