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obituarist, Ted Bastin, says of Parker-Rhodes' personality and scientific contribution: "One must say, in sum, that Parker-Rhodes leaves us with an enigma – a situation to which he brought his characteristic gentle and slightly amused acquiescence.".
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Parker-Rhodes influenced mathematical metaphysics with his book relating to the
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in the 1940s and 1950s. He even published a statistical survey of these forays. For nearly 30 years Parker-Rhodes tutored a course on fungi at the
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Handbook with Keys for the
Identification of the Tachycarpic Hymenomycetidae, Namely All the Toadstools Hitherto Found in the British Isles
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The Wheel of
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the abstract lattice of all possible descriptions into simpler, independent semantic "factors" or "dimensions".
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Needham R, Parker-Rhodes AF. (1960). "The theory of clumps".
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267:(Park.-Rhodes) K.H. Larss. which he found in a
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709:"Some typical communities of Basidiomycetes".
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808:Brief Biographies of British mycologists
752:"Distribution of fungi in a small wood".
176:on 21 November 1914. He was educated at
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279:Parker-Rhodes was an accomplished
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768:. 234 pp. UK; A.F. Parker-Rhodes.
669:"Deme structure in higher fungi:
474:Selected scientific publications
301:Cambridge Language Research Unit
1083:20th-century British scientists
200:stayed with them in Cambridge,
1068:20th-century British botanists
883:Damaris Parker-Rhodes (1977).
868:Damaris Parker-Rhodes (1977).
462:He wrote a Key to the British
138:Arthur Frederick Parker-Rhodes
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756:Annals of Botany London, N.S.
843:Wholesight: The Spirit Quest
479:Parker-Rhodes, A.F. (1949).
444:Wholesight: The Spirit Quest
438:Spiritual and other writings
222:Long Ashton Research Station
212:Plant pathology and mycology
182:Magdalene College, Cambridge
123:Author abbrev. (botany)
1023:British computer scientists
234:British Mycological Society
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168:Background & education
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355:computational linguistics
344:computational linguistics
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1098:20th-century agronomists
504:Panaeolus papilionaceous
898:Fungi, friends and foes
823:D. Gale, Eruptives III
806:Ainsworth, GC. (1996).
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245:Fungi, friends and foes
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737:Echinotrema clanculare
497:Fungi-friends and Foes
265:Trechispora clanculare
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499:. 140 pp. UK, London.
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351:information retrieval
336:information retrieval
309:information retrieval
186:Damaris Parker-Rhodes
79:combinatorial physics
1093:20th-century Quakers
456:The Myth of the Rock
448:The Myth of the Rock
295:and applications of
241:Field Studies Centre
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452:Tales from the Sink
398:machine translation
178:Marlborough College
424:divide-and-conquer
317:Karen Spärck Jones
305:Margaret Masterman
206:Society of Friends
150:computer scientist
739:gen. et sp. nov."
649:Hygrocybe turunda
382:grammatical focus
374:semantic networks
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