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Stanley J. Slinger, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, died January 3, 1990, at Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Slinger was born in New Lowell, Ontario in 1914. He received a BSA degree from the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Toronto, in 1937, an MSA degree from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto in 1941, and a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1950. He worked for a year at Canada Packers Limited in Toronto before joining the staff in the Department of Poultry Husbandry at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1951.In 1951, Slinger was appointed Professor in the Department of Poultry Husbandry and in 1964, he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the University of Guelph. He was instrumental in planning new facilities for the department, setting up a modern, fresh-water, fish-nutrition laboratory to which he devoted much of his research efforts during his later .