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THE Colonial Office announces that it has been decided to establish in Trinidad a Colonial Microbiological Research Institute, for the general study of microbiological problems in tropical conditions. The Institute will be under the general supervision of the Colonial Products Research Council, and will be financed from funds provided under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, 1940. The first director of the Institute will be Dr. A. C. Thaysen, of the Chemical Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. He has been responsible there for the fundamental work on which the food yeast factory, now in course of erection in Jamaica, has been planned. Dr. Thaysen is leaving at once from Trinidad to discuss the siting and construction of the Institute's laboratories and connected matters. It is hoped that, when the Institute is under way, it will be possible to afford facilities for postgraduate work by visiting men of science in addition to the work of the staff of the Institute itself (see also p. 564 of this issue).
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Colonial Microbiological Research Institute. Nature 155, 569 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155569b0
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