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3 unusual facts about Alexander Watt


Alexander Watt

In 1929, he became lecturer of forestry at this university and, when this undergraduate subject was given up, lecturer of forest botany – “a title which scarcely reflected his wide interest in and influence on plant ecology”.

He then went to University of Cambridge to work on beech forest under Arthur Tansley and obtained a M.S. in 1919 (after interruption by military service 1916-1918).

Much of Watt’s field studies were centred on the Breckland not far from Cambridge.



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