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MR. H. C. SAMPSON is retiring from the post of economic botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on September 30. Before going to Kew in 1927, Mr. Sampson had gained a wide experience of tropical agriculture in various parts of the Empire. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he commenced his career in the Transvaal Department of Agriculture and in 1906 entered the Indian Agricultural Service, retiring in 1923 as director of agriculture, Madras. In 1920, Mr. Sampson made a tour in Cochin China and Cambodia, to study coco-nut and cotton cultivation, and after his retirement from India he Worked for a time in Nyasaland for the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation. Mr. Sampson's appointment at Kew was made in connexion with the grant from the Empire Marketing Board for the promotion of the economic development of the Empire, and his work at Kew has been devoted to this end. In addition to giving advice on crop improvement and on the introduction of plants of economic importance to correspondents from all parts of the Empire, Mr. Sampson has paid visits, at the request of the Colonial Office, to British Guiana, British Honduras, the West Indian Colonies and East and West Africa, to study their economic resources. He has recently published a “List of the Cultivated Crop Plants of the British Empire” (Kew Bull., Additional Series 12, 1936).
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Mr. H. C. Sampson, C.I.E. Nature 142, 563 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142563b0
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