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AT the British Association meeting just held at Brighton under the presidency of Sir Henry Tizard, Sir John Russell was elected president for the 1949 meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Sir John has a world-wide reputation as an agricultural scientist. He joined the staff of the Rothamsted Experimental Station in 1907, and succeeded the late Sir Daniel Hall as director in 1912. He retired in 1943, the year of Rothamsted‘s centenary. During his thirty-one years as director, there was a remarkable expansion of Rothamsted‘s activities. Various new departments were added, new buildings were erected, and the finest agricultural library in Great Britain, if not in the world, was built up. He also raised the necessary funds for the purchase of the Rothamsted Farm and the Manor House. Sir John has made outstanding contributions to soil science and is the author of several standard works on that subject. He is a former president of the International Society of Soil Science, a foreign associate of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and a member of numerous other academies. Among the distinctions he has received are the Messel Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry and the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts. During the Second World War he was adviser to the Soviet Relations Division of the Ministry of Information and chairman of the Agriculture Sub-Committee of U.N.R.R.A.
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New British Association President: Sir John Russell, O.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 162, 444–445 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162444b0
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