| Citation | Godwin, Harry (Cambridge). M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab). Fellow of Clare college, and Lecturer in Botany in the University of Cambridge.
Distinguished as an ecologist and as the leading authority on the post-glacial history of British vegetation, particularly as revealed by the technique of pollen analysis of peats and other pleistocene and recent deposits. On the basis of numerous original discoveries and careful critical correlation he is placing this subject on a secure inductive foundation. Has published, from 1929 onwards, a long sereies of papers, both independently and jointly, on the ecology and history of fen and bog vegetation, including several on the technique and application of the method of pollen analysis, and is directing the work of an increasing number of investigations in these fileds. Is Secretary of the British Ecological Society, and one of the editors of the 'New Phytologist'. |