AGRICULTURE — GENERAL 



Imperial Bureau of 



Animal Health: 

 Veterinary Research 

 Laboratory, Weybridge, 

 Surrey 



Animal Nutrition: 

 Rowett Research Institute, 

 Aberdeen 



Plant Genetics: 

 (for crops other than her- 

 bage) Plant Breeding Insti- 

 tute, School of Agriculture, 

 Cambridge 



Plant Genetics: 

 (herbage plants) Welsh 

 Plant Breeding Station, 

 Agricultural Buildings, 

 Aberystwyth 



Fruit Production: 

 East Mailing Research 

 Station, Kent 



Animal Genetics: 

 Institute of Animal Gene- 

 tics, University of Edin- 

 burgh 



Agricultural Parasitology: 

 Institute of Agricultural 

 Parasitology, St. Albans, 

 Herts. 



Deputy Director or 

 Chief Officer in direct 

 charge of Bureau 



Director 

 Dr. W. Horner Andrews W. A. Pool 



Sir J. B. Orr, f.r.s. 



Professor F. L. Engledow, 



C.M.G. 



Dr. F. C. Kelly 



Dr. P. S. Hudson 



Professor R. G. Stapledon Dr. R. O. Whyte 



Dr. R. G. Hatton 



D. Akenhead 



Professor F. A. E. Crew Vacant 



Professor R. T. Leiper, 



F.R.S. 



A. E. Fountain 



In addition to these, the Imperial Institute of Entomology, under 

 Sir Guy Marshall, with headquarters at the British Museum of 

 Natural History, and the Imperial Mycological Institute, under 

 Mr. S. F. Ashby, at Kew, of which the inception predated that of 

 the other bureaux, have come under the Executive Council with 

 effect from 1934. They differ from the Agricultural Bureaux in 

 that both undertake works of identification, which entail labora- 

 tory accommodation for their culture. The Bureau of Hygiene 

 and Tropical Diseases, also formed prior to 1927, continues under 

 its own managing committee {see Chapter XV) . 



The object of each bureau is to establish and maintain direct 

 touch with research workers and to be of service to them by bring- 



