BUCHANAN CHAIR OF AGRICULTURE
.«. _ BRITISH APPLICANTS. (rnoji ova own correspondent.) LONDON, 6th March. Sir James Allen was engaged this week, in co-operation with an Advisory Committee of Experts, in interviewing the most promising applicants for the Chair o{ Agriculture at Victoria University College, recently founded through the munificence of Sir Walter Buchanan, K.C.M.G. The post carries with it a salary oE £900 per annum. The Committee of Experts were Sir Daniel Hall (Chief Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture), Professor T. B. Wood (Drapers Professor of Agriculture at Cambridge University), and Professor William Bateson (Director of the Horticultural College, Merlon, Surrey). There were in all 26 applications. Of these, two were from the United States, three from Canada, two from E"-ypt and 19 from Great Britain. The Committee had the duty of allotting an order of merit to the applicants. The findings will be sent on to the Victoria College Council, who have under consideration the applications from Australia and New Zealand, and with whom the final selection will rest.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 20
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