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SIR JOHN BOYD ORR'S wide circle of friends will greatly regret that he has tendered his resignation from the directorship of the Rowett Research Institute after holding that post since its foundation, in which he took a prominent part. All over the world it is recognized that to a very large extent it was his vigorous and stimulating direction that made "the Rowett" one of the outstanding research centres where problems relating nutrition to agriculture have been studied. The wide recognition to-day that planned agriculture is the only sound foundation of a national nutrition policy is one direct result of Sir John's teaching and influence. His ideas prompted the appeal for "the marriage of agriculture and nutrition "that the Right Hon. Stanley Bruce made to the League of Nations on an historic occasion. They can be regarded, therefore, as having been prominently in the mind of those who called together the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture at Hot Springs, Virginia, in 1943. Whatever benefits to the world at large may ultimately be derived from what happened at that great conference will be related in the minds of many people with the views that have dominated everything that Sir John Orr has said or written during the past twenty years.
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Sir John Orr, F.R.S., and the Rowett Research Institute. Nature 155, 168 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155168a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155168a0