DEATH OF FAMOUS AGRICULTURIST
LONDON-, October 21.
The death has? occurred of Sir Albert. Howard, C.1.E., M.A., A.R.C.S., F.L.S., one of the pioneers.of the compost system in horticulture, in Britain and a world figure as an agrobiologist. ■’ Sir Albert Howard was patron of the New Zealand ‘Humic Compost Society.
Born in 1873, he was educated at the Royal College of Science, London, and St John’s College, Cambridge. He was a mycologist and agricultural lecturer with the. Imperial Department of. Agriculture for the West Indies from 1899, to 1902, and was botanist to the. South-eastern Agricultural College, Wye, for three years.to 1905, when he was .appointed Imperial economic botanist, to. the Government of India. He remained in this position until 1924, when he became director of the Institute of Plant Industry, Indore, and. agricultural adviser to States in Central India and Raj putana. He retired from this post in 1931.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1947, Page 8
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