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THE endowment of the chair of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh was presented in 1790 by Sir William Pulteney, Bt., M.P., as a mark of his appreciation of his old University. Agriculture thus became the first chair in Edinburgh to be founded by a private benefactor, for its twenty-three predecessors had all been instituted either by the Crown or by the Town Council of Edinburgh, and it is probably the earliest foundation of its kind in any university in Britain. The present occupant of the chair, Prof. Ernest Shearer, who is also principal of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture, retires after eighteen years of service at the end of this session, and the electors have selected as his successor in both posts Dr. S. J. Watson, director-in-charge of the Jealott's Hill Agricultural Research Station of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.
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Agriculture at Edinburgh. Nature 154, 297 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154297b0
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