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MR. SAMPSON'S successor as economic botanist is Sir Geoffrey Evans, who is retiring from the post of principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. Sir Geoffrey was educated at Cambridge and was on the staff of the University Agricultural Department before entering the Indian Agricultural Service in 1906. He retired in 1923 as director of agriculture, Bengal. Afterwards, Sir Geoffrey worked in Australia, Fiji and New Guinea as director of cotton culture under the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation and was appointed principal of the College in Trinidad in 1927.
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Sir Geoffrey Evans, C.I.E. Nature 142, 563 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142563c0
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