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BY co-operation between the bee keepers of England and the Agricultural Research Council,financial arrangements have been made to carry out at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, an investigation of foul brood diseases of bees, which have hitherto caused considerable trouble and loss. Dr. H. L. A. Tarr has been appointed investigator. Dr. Tarr is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and McGill University, and since 1931 he has been working at bacteriological problems in the Biochemical School at the University of Cambridge. Foul brood diseases were investigated in England nearly fifty years ago by Cheshire and Cheyne, and in more recent years by workers in the United States, Canada and on the Continent, but in spite of all that has been done, little is known about the cause of the diseases and still less as to how to avoid or cure them. The bee keepers, through the British Bee Keepers Association, have now agreed to raise half the money necessary for the investigations, and the Agricultural Research Council has undertaken to contribute the other half. As a result, a sum of £500 a year is now available for the study of foul brood. It is hoped that the work will continue for a period of at least three years, starting early in March 1934 under the general direction of Dr. C. B. Williams, head of the Department of Entomology at Rothamsted, with the co-operation of Mr. D. M. T. Morland, apiarist. Some of the more purely bacteriological side of the work will be carried out at the Lister Institute in London. Rothamsted Experimental Station will be advised on the practical side of the work by a small expert committee of bee keepers. Further contributions towards the cost of the investigations will be welcome.
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Research on Foul Brood Diseases of Bees. Nature 133, 285–286 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133285c0
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