British Agricultural Attaché at Washington and Agricultural Adviser at Ottawa: Mr. A. N. Duckham, O.B.E

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PROF. ROBERT RAE, agricultural attaché on the staff of His Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America and agricultural adviser to the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Canada, will shortly be returning to Britain. He will be succeeded by Mr. A. N. Duckham. Mr. Duckham has been serving as director of the Supply Plans Division of the Ministry of Food, having joined that Department at the beginning of the War. Among his earlier appointments were those of secretary and manager to the Northern Ireland Pigs Marketing Board and research officer to the Bacon Development Board. He has travelled extensively in Europe and North America to examine the economics of animal husbandry. He acted as adviser to the United Kingdom delegation to the Hot Springs Food and Agriculture Conference in 1943 and was a member of the Food and Nutrition Committee of the interim Commission set up by that Conference and also chairman in the United Kingdom of the 1943 Food Consumption Levels Enquiry Committee of the Combined Food Board. Mr. Duckham took Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge, and holds the Cambridge diploma in agricultural science with distinction in animal husbandry; he is a research medallist of the Royal Agricultural Society. His published work includes reports on agricultural topics and "Animal Industry in the British Empire" which were issued by the Oxford University Press in 1932.