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Reference numberMM/14/95
LevelItem
TitleLetter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
Date25 February 1947
DescriptionOffering thoughts on contemporary life in Egypt and the UK.

"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).
Extent4 sides
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1753Oliver; Francis Wall (1864 - 1951); palaeobotanist and ecologist1864 - 1951
NA1731Russell; Sir; Edward John (1872 - 1965)1872 - 1965
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