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FRANCIS COLIN MINETT, who has just been appointed director of the Imperial Veterinary Research Institute of the Government of India, was educated at King Edward's School, Bath, from 1899 until 1907, and in the latter year entered the Royal Veterinary College. Two years after obtaining the diploma of membership of the College, he was awarded a Ministry of Agriculture research scholarship and studied at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at the Veterinary School in Alfort. On the out-break of the Great War, he joined the R.A.V.C. and proceeded to France with the Expeditionary Force. In the following year he returned to Aldershot, where he was engaged in research and in the preparation of mallein for the diagnosis of glanders—at that time a problem of urgent military importance. From 1921 until 1924 he served in Egypt, and in the, latter year resigned his commission upon receiving an appointment under the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Committee. He was awarded the D.Sc. in veterinary science of the University of London in 1927, and in the same year, upon the retirement of Sir John McFadyean, was appointed director of the Research Institute in Animal Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College, and, in 1933, when the posts became amalgamated, he was appointed professor of pathology and director of the Research Institute.
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Prof. F. C. Minett. Nature 144, 105 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144105a0
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