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WORKERS engaged in research on nutrition in Great Britain have been feeling the need for a scientific society devoted specifically to their subject. In the past no organization has existed to enable investigatorsin the many and varied branches of the science—clinical, physiological, agricultural and sociological—to find a common meeting–ground for discussion and the exchange of views. Representative, workers in all these fields accordingly decided recently to form a Nutrition Society. The new venture owes its conception to a circular letter signed by the following heads of some of the better–known centres for research on nutrition in Great Britain: Sir Joseph Barcroft, chairman, Food Investigation Board; Dr. Harriette Chick, head of the Division of Nutrition, Lister Institute; Prof. J. C. Drummond, scientific adviser to the Ministry of Food, and professor of biochemistry in University College, London; Dr. John Hammond, superintendent of the Animal Research Station, Cambridge; Dr. Leslie J. Harris, director of the Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge; Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, professor of biochemistry in the University of Cambridge; Prof. H. D. Kay, director of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading; Sir Charles J. Martin, formerly director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine; Sir Edward Mellanby, secretary of the Medical Research Council; Sir John Orr, director of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen; Prof. R. A. Peters, professor of biochemistry in the University of Oxford. Later a meeting was held at the Royal Institution attended by representatives from the various institutes, and the following provisional committee was formed: Sir John Orr (chairman); Dr. John Hammond (vice–chairman); Dr. Leslie Harris (hon. secretary); Mr. A. L. Bacharach (hon. treasurer); Dr. Harriette Chick, Dr. E. M. Cruickshank, Dr. H. H. Green, Prof. H. P. Himsworth, Prof. A. St. G. Huggett, Dr. Franklin Kidd, Dr. S. K. Kon, Dr. B. S. Platt and Dr. H. M. Sinclair.
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Foundation of a Nutrition Society. Nature 148, 433 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148433a0
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