Alexander Watt
Scottish botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Stuart Watt FRS was a Scottish botanist and plant ecologist. Life Watt was born on an Aberdeenshire farm and went to school at Turriff Secondary School and Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. He graduated as MA and BSc from the University of Aberdeen in 1913. He then went to University of Cambridge to work on beech forest under Arthur Tansley and obtained a MS in 1919 . From working with Tansley, Watt became part of an academic lineage descended from Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin. Tansley had studied with Francis W. Oliver at University College, London, who in turn had been mentored by E. Ray Lankester at University of Cambridge, a student of George Rolleston at University of Oxford, who had been in turn mentored by Thomas Henry Huxley —"Darwin's bulldog"— in London.
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