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The University of Reading has appointed Dr. H. G. Sanders, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, as professor of agriculture, from October 1944. Dr. Sanders was educated at Wellingborough School until 1917 and, after serving for two years in the Army, proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, qualifying for the degree of B.A. in 1920. After a period of practical farm work, Dr. Sanders became an assistant in the Animal Husbandry Institute, Schoo of Agriculture, Cambridge. In the winter terms of the sessions 1926–29 he gave courses of lectures in the University of Reading on animal physiology. In 1932 he was appointed a University lecturer in agriculture at Cambridge. In 1940 he was appointed deputy executive officer of the Cambridgeshire War Agricultural Executive Committee, and in 1941 executive officer to the Hertfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee. Dr. Sander's researches and publications cover a wide range of agricultural problems in both crop husbandry and animal husbandry. His best-known work is "An Outline of British Crop Husbandry", published in 1939.
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University of Reading: Prof. H. G. Sanders. Nature 154, 47 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154047c0
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