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AN Agricultural Department, which will be advised by a panel presided over by Prof. J. A. Scott Watson, chief education and advisory officer of the Ministry of Agriculture, has been set up within the Science Department of the British Council, and Dr. W. T. H. Williamson has been appointed director of the new Department. Since the formation of the Science Department of the British Council in 1941, it has been found that many of the inquiries from abroad relate to agriculture. In consequence, the Department of Agriculture has been created to control, co-ordinate and extend the work already begun in this direction. Prominent agricultural scientific workers have made visits abroad under the auspices of the British Council and provided reports on the agriculture of some foreign countries. It will be one of the functions of the new Department to follow up these reports and to provide expert information on how far the agricultural needs of the countries concerned can be provided for by the nations of the British Commonwealth. It will present the achievements of British agriculture to other countries and keep them supplied with up-to-date information on all advances in practice and science. Experiments have already been made in the distribution of original articles for reproduction in the technical press overseas.
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British Council: Formation of Agricultural Department. Nature 155, 629 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155629c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155629c0