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ing to their notice work done in their subject elsewhere in the 

 world, by answering inquiries, by supplying translation of papers, 

 and by placing research workers in touch with each other. This 

 object is brought about principally through the medium of the 

 following abstracting journals, which summarize important work 

 published in every language: Soils and Fertilizers, The Veterinary 

 Bulletin, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Plant Breeding Abstracts^ 

 Herbage Abstracts and Herbage Reviews, Horticultural Abstracts, Animal 

 Breeding Abstracts, He Imintho logical Abstracts, the Review of Applied 

 Entomology and the Review of Applied Mycology. In addition to the 

 abstracting journals, most of the bureaux also publish from time 

 to time special monographs and memoranda reviewing specific 

 problems. 



The Agricultural Research Council, with its several committees on 

 special subjects, is responsible for the correlation of results from 

 many researches in Great Britain, and has funds for annual alloca- 

 tion to special pieces of work under its own control, or for the exten- 

 sion of work at other institutions. The report for the period 1931 

 to 1933, being the first two years of the Council's activities, issued 

 in 1 934, includes admirable summaries of recent advances in the 

 several agricultural subjects and describes work which is being 

 undertaken at research institutes in Great Britain. Although the 

 Council operates only within the United Kingdom, many of its 

 conclusions have applications in the African field. 



Research on food preservation in Great Britain is carried out by 

 the Food Investigation Board of the Department of Scientific and 

 Industrial Research. There are three laboratories financed mainly 

 by the D.S.I.R., and devoted to the subject: the Low Temperature 

 Research Station at Cambridge for work on fruit and meat, where 

 research has been developed by the late Sir William Hardy; the 

 Ditton Laboratory at East Mailing which was opened in 1931 for 

 work on fruit; and the Torry Research Station at Aberdeen for 

 work on the preservation offish. Of these the Cambridge labora- 

 tory is the oldest and is the only one at present which has directly 

 studied African problems. In addition, the Department of Ento- 

 mology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 

 London, under Professor Munro, has been much concerned with 

 insect pests of stored products {see Chapter X). 



