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WITH the approval of the Lord President of the Council and after consultation with the president of the Royal Society, the Agricultural Research Council has appointed Dr. W. K. Slater to be its secretary, in succession to the late Sir John Fryer, as from May 1. The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has agreed at the request of the Agricultural Research Council to release Dr. Slater from his present duties as a senior education and advisory officer in the National Agricultural Advisory Service. Dr. Slater was educated at the Oldham Hulme Grammar School and at the University of Manchester, where he graduated in 1914. In 1922 he joined the team working under Prof. A. V. Hill in the Department of Physiology, Manchester, and later followed Prof. Hill to University College, London. During the next six years, Dr. Slater held Junior and Senior Beit Memorial Medical Research fellowships, and carried out a series of investigations on the anaerobic phase in muscular contraction and on the general phenomenon of anaerobiosis in animals. In 1928 Dr. Slater joined the staff of the Dartington Hall Trustees to set up a research laboratory and supervise the scientific aspects of their wide-scale experiments in rural economy, and later he was placed in charge of the administration of the agricultural departments of the Trust. Although personal research work was not possible, the laboratory at Dartington Hall under Dr. Slater's general supervision co-operated extensively with the research institutes on a wide range of problems, and did valuable work on the control of potato blight and on cobalt deficiency effects in sheep. In 1942 his services were loaned to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to assist the late Sir John Fryer in connexion with the Agricultural Improvement Council, and when Sir John became secretary of the Agricultural Research Council, Dr. Slater followed him as secretary of the Agricultural Improvement Council.
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Agricultural Research Council : Dr. W. K. Slater. Nature 163, 434 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163434c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163434c0