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In 1880, Druce helped to found the
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, originally established as the Ashmolean Society in 1828. It was merged with the Oxfordshire Natural History Society by Druce in 1901.
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Chairman of the Public Health Committee. He served as Sheriff of Oxford during 1896–97. He presented the City of Oxford with the Sheriff's gold chain and badge, kept in the
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Fielding Curator in the Department of Botany at the University. Among his discoveries, Druce was the first to recognise (1907–11) as a distinct variety of
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a rare narrow-leaved form, unique to the
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and a portrait in his robes can be seen in the
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639:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
516:Hayward, Ida Margaret; — (1919).
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492:Hayward, W. R.; — (1909).
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272:In 1886, he published
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