Letter from EJ Russell, Woodstock, to the Royal Society Forwarding to the Society letters sent to Russell by FW Oliver, dating from 1939-1949 and describing Oliver's experiences living in Egypt. "From 1929 until 1935 Oliver was professor at Cairo University. In the latter year he went to live on the edge of the desert and studied the changing aspects of its vegetation. He returned finally to England in 1950". (From the Oxford Dictonary of National Biography). 25 September 1951