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THE Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, for the investigation of problems of animal nutrition, has been fortunate in receiving funds from private sources. Two yearsago Mr. W. A. Reid, of Aberdeen, endowed the Library and Statistical Department. The Institute has now received a gift of 10,000l. from Mr. Duthie Webster to support the work of an experimental stock farm. Mr. Webster, who is an Aber-deenshire farmer, is the nephew of the late Mr. William Duthie, of Collynie, who earned world-wide fame as a breeder of beef cattle. The farm is being established in accordance with recommendations made by Prof. T. B. Wood, Director of the Animal Nutrition Institute at Cambridge, and Dr. J. B. Orr, Director of the Rowett Research Institute, in a joint report which, at the request of the Agricultural Council, was drawn up and submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Board of Agriculture for Scotland. One of the sections of that report emphasised the desirability of having in Great Britain one or more experimental stock farms where the results of research work, which appeared of probable economic value, could be tested on a large scale, under practical conditions. In the report it was recommended that such a farm should be established in connexion with the Rowett Research Institute.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 115, 882–885 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115882b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115882b0