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PROF. ROBERT RAE, who has been professor of agriculture in the University of Reading for the past eleven years, has resigned from academic work on his appointment as agricultural attaché to the British Embassy at Washington. During his tenure of office at Reading, Prof, Rae has expended a large amount of time and energy on the expansion of the Department of Agriculture. This Work has been highly appreciated by his colleagues and the many students with whom he has come in contact. The acquisition and development of the University Farm at Sonning-on-Thames was entirely due to his efforts. Before his appointment to Reading, Prof. Rae was professor of agriculture in Queen's University, Belfast, and previous to this he had teaching experience at the East Anglian Institute of Agriculture and the Hertfordshire Farm Institute. Many of his friends regret his departure from the sphere of agricultural education. Since the beginning of the War Prof. Rae has served on several agricultural committees connected with greater food production. More than a year ago he went on a lecture tour to the United States, which proved most successful, and where he is recognized as one of the leading authorities on British agriculture.
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University of Reading: Chair of Agriculture Prof. R. Rae. Nature 154, 47 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154047b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154047b0