Abstract
THE sixth annual report of the Commonwealth of Australia Council for Scientific and Industrial Research gives a brief review of the main activities of the Council in the year ended June 30, 1932. As might be expected, the major part of the work is concerned with plant and entomological diseases, animal, soil, forest products or storage problems, and the report reveals the admirable extent to which the Council is fostering important investigations in these fields. Due provision is made for co-operation with State organisations within the Commonwealth and also for Imperial co-operation, and the report includes full particulars of the staff of the Council, the official correspondents, as well as of the publications issued during the year and of expenditure. According to the report, Australia suffers an annual loss of no less than £12,000,000 from animal diseases, and the investigations of the Plant Division have already materially assisted in the control of bitter pit of apples, blue mould in tobacco, water-blister on pineapples as well as in breeding strains of wheat more resistant to fly smut.
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Scientific and Industrial Research in Australia. Nature 132, 236 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132236b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132236b0