SCIENCE AND EMPIRE
WIDER RESEARCH NEEDED
ACHIEVEMENTS ALREAD7
(A.P.A. and "Sun.") (Received 14th May, 8 a.m.)
, LONDON, 12th May. _Lord Stanley, of Alderley, in the House ofLords, urged the wider use o« the Imperial Institute for Scientific Bcsearch. He recommended the wool trade to follow the example of cotton spinners and make a levy for research.
_he Earl of Balfour, in defending the sufficiency of the present research bodies, mentioned the saving of a'loss of £250,000 a year by the discovery that Australian apples on shipboard, were virtually dying of (suffocation for want of oxygen to replace the carbon dioxide they were exhaling. This wag discovered as a result of the Food Council's investigations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 8
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