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THE seventh annual report (1935-36) of thfr|| Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux has now been published (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 5s.). In view of the British Com-; monwealth Scientific Conference held in London thkl| September, the volume is somewhat fuller than. usual. Particular interest will perhaps be found in the individual reports of the several institutes and bureaux, where abundant illustration is afforded of the value now attached to them by the number and diversity of the inquiries sent from all parts of the Empire, quite apart from their regular work of preparing and distributing abstract journals. Research workers in South Africa, Queensland, Sierra Leone, Cyprus, Mauritius, Victoria, India, northern England and the Gold Coast have asked for and obtained assistance from the Mycological Institute in the identification of fungi. At the Entomological Institute, insects from every country in the Empire have been received for identification. Other bureaux have assisted in obtaining material for plant breeding work, in supplying seeds, in arranging for the analysis of foodstuffs; whilst the laboratory attached to the Imperial Institute of Entomology collected and sent to Canada nearly three million parasites to aid in controlling the insect pests which were attacking the forests in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. In fact, the report marks for the seventh year the success of an Imperial service, organized on a cooperative basis and directly controlled by representatives of all parts of the Commonwealth.
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Activities of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux. Nature 138, 1048–1049 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381048d0
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