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University of British Columbia. Dept. of Botany
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University of British Columbia. Dept. of Botany
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The Department of Botany was established at UBC in the early 1920s after the Department of Biology split into the Departments of Botany and Zoology. In 1940, Botany was again reorganized into the Department of Biology and Botany and remained in this form until the mid- 1960s when it again became solely Botany. For background information about this development refer to Box 5-1. After the split, the biological functions of the Department were assumed by the Life Sciences Council which was responsible for restructuring the relationships between the life sciences. In explaining this new arrangement, the UBC Calendar (1985/86) states: Biology is not treated as a department but a field of study. Programmes are sponsored and instruction is offered cooperatively by the Departments of Biochemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Oceanography, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Physiology and Zoology.
