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Sir Gordon Sutherland, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, offers his views on the government green paper A Framework for Government Research and Development.
Professor Ralph Riley, Director of the Plant Breeding Institute at Cambridge, argues that a substantial amount of agricultural research must necessarily be carried out on a long term basis, in contradiction to Lord Rothschild's proposals.
A recommendation of the Rothschild report is that “the Institute of Hydrology should be physically transferred, together with its staff to the Department of the Environment where it should be fused with the DOE's contiguous Hydraulics Research Station”. In this article, Dr. J. F. G. McCullouch, Director of the Institute of Hydrology, offers his opinion on this statement.