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THE “assistant principal” at the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. V. E. Wilkins, has prepared a valuable pamphlet,1 which gives a useful account of the various forms of agricultural research that are being supported financially by the State. As is well known, the Ministry decided to concentrate research at definite institutions; Rothamsted is concerned with plant nutrition, soil problems, and plant pathology; Cambridge has entrusted to it plant and animal breeding, and animal nutrition; Long Ashton, a branch of the University of Bristol, deals with fruit growing and preserving; plant physiology is dealt with at the research institute attached to the Imperial College of Science; dairying at Reading; animal pathology at the Royal Veterinary College; agricultural zoology at Birmingham; helminthology at the London School of Tropical Medicine; agricultural economics in Oxford; plant breeding, with particular reference to Wales, at Aberystwyth; fruit growing and hops at East Mailing; and nursery and market gardening at Cheshunt. Besides these research institutes and stations the Ministry has set up a system of advisory centres from which information in respect of specific subjects is disseminated by advisory officers who also, in many cases, undertake a certain amount of research.
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Agricultural Research in Great Britain. Nature 110, 93–94 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110093a0
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