Professor John Parker elected to the Queen Victoria Eugenia British-Hispanic Chair of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Professor John Parker, Director of the Botanic Garden, Curator of the Herbarium and Professor of Plant Cytogenetics, has been elected to the Queen Victoria Eugenia British-Hispanic Chair of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid for the session 2007-2008. The visiting professorship will be held in the Faculty of Biology and will involve giving Public and University lectures and helping with the development of the Botanic Garden, the Herbarium and the Museum.