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Agricultural Eesearch as a Career. [Sept., 



the scholars are required to pursue a course (at present of two 

 years' duration) at one or more approved institutions. Quarterly 

 progress reports are submitted to the Ministry. No promise of 

 employment is held out to scholars when their scholarship 

 expires, but it is natural for the Directors of Research Institutes 

 to look for their assistants from among them, providing that 

 they possess the qualifications which are required for a vacant 

 post 'or a particular piece of work. 



The assistance which the Ministry gives does not end with 

 scholarships, for it has been able recently to award, and hopes in 

 future to offer annually, a small number of travelling fellowships 

 to provide the expenses of research workers v/ho desire to visit 

 laboratories and other institutions abroad and to extend their 

 knowledge of methods and technique. 



The whole scheme is yet in its infancy, and it is too early 

 to speak of more than the promise of success. To the country 

 it promises a succession of able investigators making agricultural 

 research their life work : to the worker it promises a career free, 

 as far as is reasonably possible, from the distracting cares of an 

 ill-paid profession : to the young graduate it promises a ladder, 

 not to riches, but to the highest rewards of science, the discovery 

 of truth, the advancement of the pubhc good, and the esteem 

 and appreciation, never unduly bestowed, of his fellow-workers. 



