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THE last mail brings an issue of the Allahabad Pioneer, containing the resolution of the Government of India regarding the establishment of an agricultural college and research station at Pusa, in Bengal. It will be remembered that Mr. Henry Phipps gave a sum of 20,000l. to be devoted to whatever object of public utility (if possible in the direction of scientific research) the Viceroy might prefer, and on the decision to create with this sum an imperial centre for agricultural investigation Mr. Phipps increased his donation by another 10,000l. It was at first proposed to make the existing laboratory at Dehra Dun the nucleus of the new work, but the superior advantages offered by the estate at Pusa have resulted in the decision βto make Pusa the headquarters of the Imperial Agricultural Department, and to establish there the laboratories required by the experts, combining with them farms which will offer every convenience for practical work, and an agricultural college.β For this purpose the estate has been transferred from the Government of Bengal to the Government of India, and the existing staff at Dehra Dun will move to Pusa when, the laboratories are ready, which is expected to be in September, 1905.
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Agricultural Education and Research in India . Nature 69, 564 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069564a0
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