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Colin Cadman

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Colin Cadman
Born16 July 1916
Died27 September 1971
NationalityScottish
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Dr Colin Houghton Cadman FRSE (16 July 1916 – 27 September 1971) was a Scottish botanist who served as Director of the Scottish Horticultural Institute 1956 to 1971. He specialised in plant pathology, with a detailed knowledge relating to raspberries. He was also President of the Association of Applied Mycologists in 1971[1] and President of the Association of Applied Biologists from 1969 to 1970.[2]

Life

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He was born in Glasgow on 16 July 1916.[3] He studied at the University of Liverpool, and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1940.[1][4]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950 one of his proposers being Sir William Wright Smith.[5]

He lectured in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Dundee.[6]

He died in Edinburgh on 27 September 1971 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery.

Family

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He was unmarried and had no children.[7]

Works

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  • Annals of Applied Biology (1971)[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b Desmond, Ray (25 February 1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including ... CRC Press. ISBN 9780850668438. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  2. ^ Geoffrey C. Ainsworth. Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (John Webster, David Moore, eds.), p. 35 (British Mycological Society; 1996) (ISBN 0952770407)
  3. ^ "Colin Houghton Cadman; 16 July 1916--27 September 1971". Usda.gov. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  4. ^ Cadman, C. H. (November 1940). "Genetical studies on the interrelationships of certain viruses causing necrosis in the potato". Edinburgh Research Archive; Ph.D. thesis{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. ^ "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1783-2002" (PDF). Royalsoced.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  6. ^ "University of Dundee Archive Services | The Main Catalogue". Arccat.dundee.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  7. ^ Edinburgh, Royal Society of (1971). Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 35.
  8. ^ Harris, R.V. (1971). "COLIN HOUGHTON CADMAN: 1916–1971". Annals of Applied Biology. 69 (3): 277–278. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1971.tb04680.x.