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A FURTHER series of grants have been made by the Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to enable selected officers of the Colonial Service to spend a period of absence from their official duties in study, research and travel. Those who have received grants include the following: H. L. Collett, agricultural and soil erosion officer, Basutoland, for the purpose of investigating methods for the prevention of soil erosion in the United States; H. R. Phillpotts, assistant superintendent of public works, Jamaica, for a course of study in water purification and chlorination in the United Kingdom, and in sanitary engineering; W. Fotheringham, veterinary research officer, Kenya, for a course of study in pathology and bacteriology at the University of Edinburgh, and at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town, particularly in relation to the respiratory diseases of sheep; W. C. Gee, assistant engineer, Wireless, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Malaya, for the study of short-wave telephony transmission and ultra-short wave transmission and reception at various institutions in the United Kingdom, in the United States, and elsewhere; A. G. Beattie, agricultural officer, Nigeria, for a visit to India for the purpose of studying peasant husbandry, dairying and cattle breeding, and irrigation from wells; H. M. O. Lester, deputy director of Sleeping Sickness Service, Nigeria, for visits to the Congo, Tanganyika, the southern Sudan, and other parts of Africa, to study methods of sleeping sickness control; J. D. Martin, assistant conservator of forests, Northern Rhodesia, for a course in sylviculture and ecology at the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford; J. G. M. King, district agricultural officer, Tanganyika, for a visit to Nigeria to study methods of mixed farming introduced in that colony; R. A. M. Mackay, assistant inspector of mines, Tanganyika, for a course of study connected with the ore bodies of the Lupa Gold Field at the Royal School of Mines, London; A. C. G. Palmer, science master, Grenada Boys' Secondary School, Windward Islands, for a course in education with particular reference to agriculture.
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Colonial Officers and Scientific Research. Nature 139, 710 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139710b0
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