British Council Science Office in China : Dr. R. A. Silow

Abstract

DR. R. A. SILOW, until recently scientific officer of the Agricultural Research Council at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, has been appointed director of the British Council's Science Office in China, in succession to Dr. Joseph Needham, who is now with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Dr. Silow is a graduate of the University of Reading in agricultural botany. He did research in genetics at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth, during 1929-33. He then went to the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation's Cotton Research Station, Trinidad, B.W.I., remaining there until 1944. He was visiting professor of plant genetics at the Blandy Experimental Farm of the University of Virginia during 1944-45 ; after which he became scientific officer of the Agricultural Research Council, attached to the Plarit Breeding Institute, School of Agriculture, University of Cambridge. His work has included investigations on Asiatic cottons in collaboration with the Chinese Agricultural Research Bureau at Nanking.