Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell Mostly personal details but also offering information on the meteorolgy of the desert. "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). 31 December 1946