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men trained in scientific methods would cease to be the cause 

 of much loss to the farmer and gardener. 



Reports on Work, 



It is not intended that periodical reports for publication 

 shall be required from Research Institutions. Each scientific 

 worker will, as a rule, be expected to contribute the results 

 of his work, so soon as it may be sufficiently advanced, to a 

 British scientific journal for publication. He will be ex- 

 pected to secure the acceptance of his work by the journals 

 which circulate chiefly among scientific readers specially 

 interested in the subject of his research, so that State-aided 

 scientific work may have the advantage of the criticism of 

 the scientific public. 



In certain cases the work may be published by an Institu- 

 tion in the form of periodical scientific memoirs or in book 

 form ; but for the present this course would not usually be 

 desirable, and the cost of such publications should not be 

 charged to the Research Grants without the express sanction 

 of the Board, which will only be given in exceptional cir- 

 cumstances: 



As soon as any statement as to research work has been pub- 

 lished, each writer will be required to supply to the Board a 

 short article or note explaining the objects and results of his 

 work in a form suitable for publication in the Journal of the 

 Board of Agriculture, so that farmers and the general public 

 may be informed of what is being done. 



The Director of each Institution or the Head of each 

 Laboratory aided will be required to submit to the Board, 

 but not, as a general rule, for publication, an annual report 

 containing full information as to the work which has been 

 done at the Institution during the year. 



Relationship to Local Institutions, 

 Each of the Research Institutions is intended to be the 

 , headquarters of research in its own particular group of sub- 

 jects, but it is clear that circumstances may often arise which 

 might make it impracticable for a Research Institution to 

 take up a particular piece of work, e.g., in a case in which 

 local study was required or for which no member of the 

 staff could well be employed. Where these conditions exist 



