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FABMERS and others interested in agriculture have sometimes expressed the view that insufficient information is available about the activities of the Agricultural Research Council. To meet what it recognizes as an important need, the Council has issued a booklet entitled “Constitution and Functions of the Agricultural Research Council”, copies of which can now be obtained on written application to the Secretary at 6a, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W.I. The Council, which was established by Royal Charter in 1931, is responsible for tendering advice to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Department of Agriculture for Scotland and the Development Commissioners as to the expenditure on agricultural research of State funds amounting to more than four hundred thousand pounds yearly. It is also charged with the scientific supervision of subsidized agricultural research, and, in addition, it has research officers engaged in the investigation of particular problems. A recent development has been the acquisition of an estate at Compton in Berkshire for use as a field station. Here problems such as those involved in certain diseases of animals will be investigated on a field scale, when the necessary laboratory experiments have been carried out at the research institutes, and a supply of animals, which have been raised in isolation and are free from disease, will be kept available for the workers at these institutes. In addition to advising on research in progress, the Council plans and co-ordinates such immediate extensions of the research programme as seem necessary to secure a more intensive attack on problems of special urgency, particularly in the field of animal and plant diseases.
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The Agricultural Research Council. Nature 142, 506 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142506b0
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