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THE appeal for funds to purchase the Rothamsted fields has now secured in cash or good promises the £10,000 necessary to claim the munificent donations of £15,000 by Mr. Robert McDougall and £5,000 by the Sir Halley Stewart Trust (see NATURE, 133, 442, March 24, 1934). The success of the purchase scheme is therefore assured, and the appeal is being kept open only a few days longer in order to enable the Committee to obtain the further amount needed to meet the agreed addition to the purchase price consequent on the ascertainment of the tithe charges, timber evaluation and other items. Several organisations still have to make their final decisions, but it is confidently expected that the whole amount including these additional payments will be secured within the next few days, so that the Rothamsted Committee can enter into possession free of all financial obligation and free therefore to devote the whole of its resources to the important agricultural investigations in hand.
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Rothamsted Experimental Station. Nature 133, 755 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133755c0
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