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Australian Institute of Agricultural Science

J. Stevens

Published 1953 in Nature

ABSTRACT

IN January 1935 the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science was inaugurated, with Prof. A. E. V. Richardson, of the Waite Institute, as its first president. The presidential message states that “the major work of the Institute will be the development of an esprit de corps among the members of the profession throughout the Commonwealth, and in assisting in the formation of a public opinion which will insist that the agricultural and pastoral resources of Australia should be developed by the best known methods and utilised to the best advantage attainable”. The constitution provides for periodical meetings of the Institute and its local branches, and also for the publication of a journal of which the first number has now appeared (vol. 1, No. 1, March 1935). It is intended that this journal shall be devoted to the publication of leading articles, reviews of present states of knowledge, research papers, technical notes and other items of a professional and general nature. The current number gives some indication of the wide field of interests it is proposed to cover. Contributed articles deal with agricultural science in the Soviet Union, and with rural relief and agricultural extension. The economic side is catered for by an article dealing with commerce and agricultural research and also by abstracts of a discussion on “Plant Quarantine” at the Melbourne meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. The technical notes deal with various problems in agricultural plant physiology, entomology and pathology, while a column of personal notes will help to keep the members of the Institute in touch with one another. If the present programme is continued, both the Institute and the Journal should help to fill the need that has long been felt for an organisation, commonwealth in scope, through which the views of the agricultural profession can be expressed.

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