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IN continuation of the announcement made in the House of Commons on April 27 that the Government accepted in principle the establishment of a Nature Conservation Board and a Biological Service under the auspices of the Agricultural Research Council, Mr. Herbert Morrison on November 1 stated in the House that the preparations for the service were approaching completion, and that Capt. Cyril Diver had been appointed to take charge of it and had taken up his duties that day. The London office of the service is at Thorney House, Smith Square, S.W.1. Capt. Diver brings to his new post extensive administrative experience as clerk of the Financial Committee of the House of Commons, and in addition has long been keenly interested in natural history, and in particular the study of ecology. While on active service in the First World War he made a study of snails in the trenches. He has been an active member of the British Ecological Society, of which he has been president. He served on the Hature Reserves Investigation Committee and assisted in drafting its report, and also on the Wild Life Conservation Special Committee, which in its report recommended the formation of a Biological Service in Great Britain.
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Biological Service in Great Britain: Capt. Cyril Diver. Nature 162, 766–767 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162766c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162766c0