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The Agricultural Research Council, with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, has decided that in many directions progress towards the improvement of animal health and production is restricted by lack of knowledge of the fundamental physiology, normal and abnormal, of farm animals, and that to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge a new Institute of Animal Physiology is needed. It has been decided that the Council should establish such an Institute, since the work which must be done needs the provision of buildings, land and large animals on a scale which would not be appropriate to a university department. Prof. I. de Burgh Daly, professor of physiology in the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed director, and will take office early in 1948. It is intended to appoint as Prof. Daly's senior colleagues a biochemist and a pathologist, so that the full range of problems bearing on the physiology of farm animals may be studied, including practical problems arising in the course of the handling and care of animals on the farm. A site for the new Institute has not yet been chosen, but preference will be given to one sufficiently near to a university to facilitate close contact between scientific workers in the Institute and those in University departments.
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Agricultural Research Council: A New Institute of Animal Physiology. Nature 160, 357 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160357a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160357a0