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DR. F. J. F. Shaw, whose death in India was recently announced, joined the Indian Agricultural Service in 1910 as a mycologist attached to the Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa. He remained at Pusa for the whole of his service except for a short period at Coimbatore in Madras, and was engaged in research in plant pathology and work on the control of plant diseases until 1928, when he was appointed Imperial economic botanist. Even in this latter appointment much of his work was the breeding of crop plants for resistance to disease, so that he retained his interest in plant pathology in the broad sense. Of late, much of his time was occupied in administrative duties, for he was appointed director of the Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research at Pusa in 1934, and as such had the supervision of the arrangements for trans ferring the Institute, wrecked by the Bihar earth quake that year, to a new site near Delhi. For the last few months he was at Simla officiating as agri cultural expert with the Imperial Council of Agri cultural Research; but he left to supervise some of the difficult operations of the transfer of the Institute, and was overcome by the heat at Agra.
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Dr. F. J. F. Shaw, C.I.E.. Nature 138, 317–318 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138317b0
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