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Elsie Chick (age 35). He became thereby the brother-in-law of his old friend and fellow botanist, Arthur Tansley.  In 1903 Tansley had married Elsie's sister, Edith Chick.  FF was Tansley's best man. The two men, and FF's brother, Vernon Blackman (another botanist), had become friends while students at Cambridge.  As young graduates working in London, Tansley and Vernon had been flatmates. The Blackman family completed half a century at the forefront of British botany through the work of Vernon's

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