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IT is distinctly unusual for the Governor-General of a great Dominion to deliver an important scientific address; yet that is what recently happened in New Zealand when Lord Bledisloe gave the Cawthron lecture, which is there regarded as the annual pronouncement par excellence on modern movements in science and their relation to the life of the community. Lord Bledisloe chose as his title “A Conspectus of Recent Agricultural Research” and the choice was doubly happy in that the subject is of profound importance to the people of New Zealand and that he himself is so well qualified to deal with it. Nowhere in the world is scientific agriculture more highly developed and nowhere can one gather a more discriminating and better informed audience to listen to an agricultural lecture than at the Cawthron Institute on the occasion of this annual function.
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Science and Empire Building. Nature 130, 977–978 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130977a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130977a0