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THE Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad is now the recognized centre for postgraduate training in tropical agriculture for the agricultural services of the Colonial Empire. The governing body in its latest report for the year ending August 31, 1938, record that 159 past students of the College have been appointed to the Colonial Agricultural Service and allied services, posts being now held in thirty different parts of tho British Empire. The year under review was marked by the retirement of Sir Geoffrey Evans, who had filled the office of principal with much distinction since 1926, and who left the College with its function in the development of agriculture throughout the Colonial Empire firmly established, and with an international reputation as a centre of education and research. Mr. Odin Tom Faulkner, lately director of agriculture in the Straits Settlements and adviser on agriculture in the Malay States, was appointed to succeed Sir Geoffrey Evans. During 1937-38 the work of the College proceeded 011 normal lines. Research was mainly concerned with problems relating to cacao, sugar, bananas and citrus fruits, and the cost of much of the work was met by contributions from firms connected with the appropriate industry. The governing body is anxious to raise a substantial endowment fund; but its hope that the grant of £32,000 made by the Carnegie Corporation in 1932 towards this object would be followed by contributions from British firms and others interested in tropical agriculture has yet to be realized. Capital is also required for the purchase of more land for the college farm, for additional laboratories and tho reconstruction of the biological building.
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The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. Nature 143, 468 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143468b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143468b0