David Lewis obituary

My friend David Lewis, who has died aged 85, was an academic botanist and pro-vice chancellor at the University of Sheffield.

David's scientific speciality was the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and their plant partners. Away from university administrative duties, he also served as editor (1970-1983) and then executive editor (1983-1995) of the New Phytologist, elevating its status from a national to an international botanical journal. He was a regular contributor to the publication himself; his last paper appeared just two years before he died.