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THE death is announced of MR. SYDNEY FISHER, one of the leading authorities on agriculture in Canada. Mr. Fisher was born in 1850, and educated at McGill University, and later at Cambridge. At the age of thirty-one years he entered the Dominion Parliament, and, with the exception of an interval lasting from 1891-96, was a representative in it continuously until 1911. He made a study of the principles of agriculture, and when Sir Wilfrid Laurier came into power in 1896 was appointed Minister of Agriculture, an office which he held for fifteen years. During his tenure of office Mr. Fisher initiated a progressive agricultural policy, the most important part of which was the establishment, in various parts of the Dominion, of experimental farms, where careful and profitable research has been undertaken. Mr. Fisher will also be remembered as the first vice-president of the International Institute of Agriculture convened at Rome in 1908.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 213 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107213b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107213b0