308 SCIENCE IN AFRICA 



ORGANIZATION 



BRITISH 



There are first to be considered central institutions in Great 

 Britain which deal with the whole British Empire. 



The Imperial Institute at South Kensington has important relations 

 with the African territories, whether Dominions or Colonies, in 

 both the intelligence and research sides of its work. The Institute's 

 Advisory Council for Plant and Animal Products, under the chair- 

 manship of Sir F. A. Stockdale, serves in an advisory way as a link 

 between the producer and industrial firms in this country. The con- 

 sultative committees on special subjects,under the Council, there- 

 fore include business men as well as scientists. The subjects dealt 

 with are overseas timber, sericulture, vegetable fibres, oils and oil- 

 seeds, essential oils, gums and resins, tanning materials, hides and 

 skins, and insecticide materials of vegetable origin. Many impor- 

 tant results of research in these subjects are published in the Bul- 

 letin of the Imperial Institute. 



The organization of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux is more 

 recent than that of the Imperial Institute and serves a different 

 purpose. It resulted from the Imperial Agricultural Research Con- 

 ference of 1927, when research workers from all over the Empire 

 pointed out the difficulty of keeping abreast of the literature pub- 

 lished in their various special branches of agriculture. The 

 bureaux function as clearing-houses for information, and do not 

 undertake research work, though each is located at a centre well 

 known for researches in the branch of agricultural science with 

 which it deals. The bureaux operate under an Executive Council 

 consisting of representatives of the British Isles, Dominions, 

 and Colonies with Sir David Chadwick as Secretary (I.A.B. 



1938). ^ 



The list of Bureaux in 1 937 was as follows: 



Deputy Director or 

 Chief OJl'icer in direct 

 Imperial Bureau of Director charge of Bureau 



Soil Science: 



Rothamsted Experimental Sir E. J. Russell, f.r.s. G. V. Jacks 



Station, Harpenden, Herts. 



