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IT was for long a reproach to this country that so little attention was paid to agricultural research and education. The first step, to remedy this state of affairs was taken in 1910, when Mr. Lloyd George set up the Development Commission! and provided it with funds for the promotion of research and of various schemes and methods calculated to assist the agricultural industry. Out of its funds the Commission ia 1911 made at grant to the Board of Agriculture of 50,000l. per annum for the carrying out of the Board's scheme to promote agricultural research and education, and this sum was allocated to various institutions and colleges, thereby allowing much-needed extensions of laboratories and staffs. Bt is a condition of the grant that a report on the work of the institution should be sent each; year to the Board, and these reports as published have been, duly reviewed in the columns of NATURE.
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RUSSELL, E. The Development of Agricutltural Research and Education in Great Britain . Nature 103, 227–229 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103227a0
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