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SIR JAMES MACKENNA, who died on April 3, aged sixty-seven, belonged to the small band of members of the Indian Civil Service who, though not scientific workers themselves, employed their long service in India in encouraging the application of science to the solution of the agricultural problems of the country. I first met him in 1904, when he had been some ten years in Burma and was already recognized as one of the most successful directors of agriculture of his time. Even then he showed those qualities which distinguished him throughout his career—a thorough grasp of the problems of rural development, a strong belief that agricultural research was likely to lead to a great improvement in Indian crops and stock, and a faculty for getting things done. From this time on, his work as a member of the Indian Civil Service was chiefly concerned with agricultural development in Burma, until he was appointed agricultural adviser to the Government of India in 1916.
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MANN, H. Sir James Mackenna, C.I.E. Nature 145, 735 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145735a0
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