RAW, Frank

First Professor of Entomology at the University of Queensland, Australia, who was born in England and after War work on wireworms became an advisory entomologist first at Long Ashton and then in the National Agricultural Advisory Service at Bristol working on the Cockchafer. He then spent 19 years at Rothamstead including a two year secondment to Ghana working mainly on soil insects, on the control and ecology of pests and on earthworms. He was the author of Life in the Soil and joint editor of Soil Ecology. He took up his post at Queensland six months before his death. There are obituaries in Nature, 217, 1968, p.691 and Proc.RESL, 32, (1967-68) (C), pp.59-60. FRES 1948-1967. (MD 11/04)