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Australia and W. B. Alexander was appointed biologist to the board. The project took him on visits to North and South America in search of a suitable insect agent and in 1924 he was promoted to Officer-in-charge. The result of these overseas
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Nicholson, E.M., 1966. Obituary. Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (1885–1965).
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