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WE regret to record the death of Sir James Wilson, late of the Indian Civil Service, on Dec. 22 at his residence, Annieslea, Crieff. He was a recognised authority on a variety of topics connected with India —administrative, economic, philological, and ethnographic. After his retirement from the Indian service in 19II, when he settled in London, being keenly interested in agricultural matters, he acted as superintending inspector under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and became a governor of the Agricultural Organisation Society; in 19I4 he was appointed permanent delegate for Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to the. Institute of Agriculture in Rome.
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Sir James Wilson, K.C.S.I. Nature 119, 59 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119059a0
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