[Taxacom] The decline of Botany in the UK hits the national papers

[Alastair Culham]

A recent issue of our broadsheet daily paper the Telegraph has an
interesting article on the decline of British botany by Professor Steve
Jones.  Not strictly taxonomy but there is a familiar sound to the
story.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/steve-jones/8001565/Where-have-all-th
e-British-botanists-gone-just-when-we-need-them.html

 

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Dr Alastair Culham

Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics

Harborne Building

School of Biological Sciences

University of Reading

Whiteknights

Reading, RG6 6AS

U.K.

 

Associate Editor, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
<http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=110> 

Programme Director, MSc Plant Diversity
<http://www.biosci.reading.ac.uk/Teaching/MscPlantDiversity.htm> 

School Learning Technology Coordinator

Senior Resident Tutor, Lakeside Group

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