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the Imperial Agricultural Conference in 1927 the Imperial Bureau of 
Animal Nutrition was established within the Reid Library in 1929. It is 
a clearing house for information and links together the work on animal 
nutrition which is going on in various laboratories and experimental farms 
throughout the Empire. It provides opportunities for exchange of ideas, 
for comparison and correlation of results, and for personal contacts 
between workers at home and abroad. In 1931 there was issued from 
the Reid Library the first number of the journal Nutrition Abstracts and 
Reviews. This journal is published quarterly and is issued under the 
joint direction of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux Council, the Medical 
Research Council and the Reid Library. In addition to the journal 
there have been published from the Reid Library 205 memoirs on the 
various activities carried out at the Institute. A number of books on 
other subjects of general interest have also been issued. In 1932 
Strathcona House was opened. It is a residence for workers and visitors 
to the Institute and is the headquarters of a social club open to research 
workers and others engaged in higher teaching, research and education. 
The number on the staff of the Institute and Imperial Bureau is about 
twenty-five, including the heads of the biochemistry, physiology and 
animal husbandry and the overseas workers and scholars. 
THe Macauray InstTITUTE FoR Sot ResearcH.—The Macaulay 
Institute for Soil Research, which is situated at Craigiebuckler on the 
boundary of the city, was established in 1930 through the generosity of 
Mr. T. B. Macaulay, the President of the Sun Life Assurance Company 
of Canada, whose ancestors came from the Island of Lewis. The 
Institute consists of a large mansion house in which laboratories have 
been fitted up, greenhouses, a large walled experimental garden and 
nearly 50 acres of land. In addition to the Director (Dr. W. G. Ogg) 
and the Secretary (Miss Bowman), there are seven members of the 
technical staff, consisting of a soil geologist, specialists for advisory work 
among farmers, moorland work, soil surveys and drainage analysis, a 
technical assistant and a part-time advisory officer who lectures during 
the winter months. The Institute owns 147 acres of peat land on Arnish 
Moor, near Stornoway, where field experiments are being conducted to 
ascertain the best methods of improving peat land. Joint work at the 
Institute is in progress with the Geological Survey, the Forestry Com- 
mission, the Forestry Department of Aberdeen University, the Animal 
Diseases Research Association, the North of Scotland College of Agri- 
culture and the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. 
