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-RESEARCH—AN AID TO FOREST Re HE DU LON: 
Important as are the results already accomplished by forest research 
in this country, they appear extremely small as compared with the 
enormous size of the industry depending upon wood, and the vital 
interests of the country as a whole. The lumber and wood-using indus- 
tries are among the greatest and most important manufacturing indus- 
trial developments of the country. Of the various industries they rank 
second in invested capital, first in labour employed, and second in 
annual value of products. Yet the total appropriation for forest 
research in this country barely exceeds 600,000 dollars a year, covering 
all the activities—Government, State, college, and individual. This is 
less than one-hundredth of 1 per cent. Compared with the expenditures 
of research of such industries as the steel, chemical, telephone, and 
photographic industries, &ec., the wood-using™ industries of this country 
have not begun to realize the possibilities through research. 
Cornell University, U.S.A., has received a bequest of £100,000 as an 
endowment to promote Research, 
We learn from Nature that Mr. John Quiller Rowett has contributed 
£10,000 towards the endowment of an Institute for Research in Animal 
Nutrition in connexion with the University of Aberdeen and the North 
of Scotland College of Agriculture. The new institute, which will be 
named Rowett Research Institute, has secured the services of Dr. J. B. 
Orr, the Director, recently associated with Professor E. P. Cathcart’ in 
the conduet of a study of the energy output of soldiers, and Dr. R. H. iN, 
Plimmer, Chief Biochemist in the Institute, a research worker in the 
Physiological Institute of University College, London. 
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