EDITORIAL. 
THE BRITISH EMPIRE SUGAR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. 
The need for a British Sugar Research Association has so long been 
felt by sugar planters, refiners, and all those manufacturing firms 
directly and indirectly concerned with sugar that the formation of such 
an association as has now come into being will be welcomed. 
With the assistance and support of the Government Department of 
Industrial and Scientific Research, a strong association has now been 
formed, whose articles and memorandum of association and prospectus 
have received the approval of that Department as well as that of the 
Board of Trade. On 30th May of this year this association was regis- 
tered under the presidency of Sir George Beilby, who is a member of 
the Advisory Council of the Government Department of Industrial and 
Scientific Research. ~The vice-presidents are the following dis- 
tinguished gentlemen:—The Right Hon. Lord Bledisloe of Lydney, 
K.B.E.; Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., D.C.L., D.Se., LL.D.; Sir - 
Edward Rosling; Professor KE. J. Russell, O.B.E., D.Sc, F.R.S.; 
Professor W. Bateson, D.Sc., F.R.S.; Professor J. Bretland Farmer, 
D.Se., M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. Edward Saunders. The gentlemen 
elected to the council represent every branch of the sugar industry 
throughout the Empire. The aim of the association is to establish, in 
co-operation with the Government Department of Scientific and In- 
dustrial Research, an Empire scheme for the scientific investigation, 
either by its own officers, or by universities, technical schools, and other 
institutions, of the problems arising in the sugar industry, and to 
encourage and improve the technical education of persons who are. or 
may be engaged in the industry. The association is inviting all those 
who are engaged in any branch of the sugar industry within the Empire 
to become members, and thus become eligible for benefits resulting from 
the scientific investigations it will carry out. While it may be admitted 
that research work has always been proceeding in scattered localities 
of the Empire where cane and beet are grown, and also in England 
where sugar is refined, as well as in factories where sugar is an in- 
gredient for the manufacture of the finished article, such research is 
carried out by the factory chemist, who works continually for the im- 
provement of sugar manufacture. Such improvements, however, often 
remain only half investigated, owing to the time given to routine work, 
which is the main occupation of the factory chemist. There are few 
factories which can employ a highly skilled chemist mainly for research 
work; therefore, the necessity for an organized association where re- 
search will be carried out by the best brains for the general benefit of 
the Empire sugar industry is felt daily more and more. The scope 
of the work to be done by the association will inchide the investigation 
of problems arising in all branches of the sugar industry, including the 
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