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CAMBRIDGE.—Another important development of the Agricultural School of the University is foreshadowed in an offer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries announced by the Council of the Senate. In the first instance the offer is of a sum of 30,000l. from the Development Commissioners to provide for a Chair of Animal Pathology. On the professor being appointed, he would be required to prepare a scheme for the development within the University of the study of the diseases of farm animals. For an approved-scheme the Commissioners would be prepared to find a capital sum of about 25,000l. for buildings, the sites to be provided by the University. While the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act Fund lasts, i.e. till about 1927, annually recurring grants for maintenance and research would be met out of that Fund. After the Corn Repeal monies come to an end the Ministry confidently expect to find from other sources money to continue the work. In the event then of the necessary financial provision not being forthcoming, the University would “be under no obligation to continue the Institute. Both the Schools of Agriculture and of Medicine stand to gain greatly from this new scheme, and work of the utmost importance for that side of agriculture which depends on live-stock will be initiated.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 111, 204–205 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111204b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111204b0