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THE University Grants Committee, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland have appointed an Inter-Departmental Committee to inquire into the financial needs of veterinary education in Great Britain and to make recommendations to the University Grants Committee, in respect of universities, and to the appropriate Agricultural Minister, in respect of other educational institutions, as to the application of any moneys provided by Parliament towards meeting these needs. The Committee is constituted as follows: Dr. A. E. Trueman (chairman), deputy chairman of the University Grants Committee ; T. Dalling, director of the Veterinary Laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ; H. W. Dawes, president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ; Sir John Fryer, secretary of the Agricultural Research Council ; Dr. Thomas Loveday, chairman of the Joint Advisory Committee on Agricultural Education ; Prof. G. W. Pickering, professor of medicine in the University of London ; J. N. Ritchie, deputy chief veterinary officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ; W. L. Weipers, member of the boards of governors of the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and of the Glasgow Veterinary College. The secretary to the Committee is Mr. E. Earnshaw Smith, of the University Grants Committee, 38 Belgrave Square, London, S.W.I. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland will each appoint an assessor to the Committee.
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Grants for Veterinary Education. Nature 161, 163 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161163b0
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