New British Agricultural Attaché at Washington and Agricultural Adviser at Ottawa

Abstract

PROF. JAMES A. SCOTT WATSON, Sibthorpian professor of rural economy in the University of London, who for the past wo years has been 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 Great Britain and he will be succeeded by Prof. Robert Rae, professor of agriculture in the University of Reading. Prof. Rae was trained at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture. After a short period as lecturer in agriculture at the. East Anglian Institute of Agriculture at Chelmsford, in 1921 he became vice-principal of the Hertfordshire Institute of Agriculture, St. Afbans. In 1925, he left St. Albans for Northern Ireland, where he was appointed professor of crop and animal husbandry at the Queen's University, Belfast, director of the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland and head of the Crop and Animal Husbandry Research Division of the Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. In 1933 he became professor of agriculture at the University of Reading.