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of Agriculture and Fisheries has now appointed a Committee to 

 advise the Board as to how agricultural research may be best 

 encouraged and improved. 



This Committee will deal with the methods to be adopted : a) for 

 promoting agricultural research in universities, and other scientific 

 schools ; ) for aiding scientific workers in the study of agricultural 

 problems, and c) for ensuring that the new scientific discoveries 

 are utilised for the benefit of agriculturists. 



The Committee consists of the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Reay, 

 the chemist Sir Edward Thorpe, C. B., F. R. S., Mr. David Da- 

 vies M. P., Dr. J. J. Dobbie, F. R. S. (Principal of the Govern- 

 ment laboratories), Prof. J. B. Farmer, F. R. S., Dr. S. F. Harmer, 

 F. R. S. (Keeper ol zoology at the Natural History Museum), Dr. 

 R. Stewart MacDougall (Technical advisor in zoology to the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries), Mr. Spencer P. Pickering, F. R. S. ; 

 Lieut-Colonel David Prain, C. I. E., F. R. S. (Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew), Mr. H. S. Staveley-Hill M. P., Mr. Steward 

 Stockman (chief veterinary officer of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries), Dr. J. J. H. Teall F. R. S. (Director of the Geological 

 Survey and Museum) and Dr. David Wilson. Mr. Middleton will 

 act as Chairman of the Committee, and one of the officers of the 

 Intelligence Division of the Board will act as Secretary. 



A Society has also been formed for the development of the 

 agricultural investigations at Rothamsted, carried on for so long 

 by the late Sir John Lawes, and the Lawes Agricultural Trust which 

 he afterwards founded. 



The Society for Extending the Rothamsted Experiments, met 

 at Rothamsted on June 16, under the presidency of the Duke of 

 Devonshire. The immediate object of the Society is to obtain a 

 sum of 5000 (francs 126 250) in order to secure about 200 acres 

 of land adjoining the present experimental fields, and erect thereon 

 the buildings required for feeding experiments with the crops under 

 investigation. A subscription list has been opened and 1450 

 (equal to 36 612 francs) have already been secured. 



P. G. CRAIGIE. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. (Standard 

 Cyclopedia of Modern Agriculture, edited by Prof. R. P. Wright. 

 Vol. II, London, 1909, pp. 166-168). 



For twenty-nine years of our agricultural history (1793-1822) the 

 title Board of Agriculture was applied to a body, which was not 



