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ON September 1, the Central African Council established, on behalf of the Governments of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a Central African Scientific Liaison Office in the British Commonwealth of Nations Scientific Offices, Kings-way, London. This arrangement whereby three Colonies, acting jointly, follow the lead of the Dominions by appointing a scientific liaison officer to London provides an interesting new phase in the developing pattern of Commonwealth scientific relations. Mr. R. McChlery, who becomes the first Central African scientific liaison officer in London, went from school at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, to take a science degree at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown. He was then awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and proceeded to Exeter College, Oxford, where he obtained the B.A. degree in chemistry in 1925 and the B.Sc. degree in 1926. Following a short course of study at Rothamsted Agricultural Research Station he returned to Southern Rhodesia to join the Chemistry Branch of the Department of Agriculture, where he has since been employed, mainly on problems connected with soil fertility and crop production.
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Central African Scientific Liaison Office : Mr. R. McChlery. Nature 162, 408 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162408b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162408b0