SZ/ACSP/9/3 - Working Party on a Centre for Tropical Agriculture

SZ/ACSP/9/3

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Working Party on a Centre for Tropical Agriculture

1955-1956

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The contents are complementary to those in Series SZ/ORC. The Working Party was chaired by SZ and had its origins in an informal meeting in May 1954 between SZ, Alexander Geddes, Professor J.F.V. Phillips, Sir Geoffrey Clay, and Sir Alexander Todd at which the case for establishing in London a post-graduate research centre for tropical agriculture was considered. The task of the Working Party was to examine the idea in detail. It reported in August 1956, recommending that such an institute, if established, should not be a government organisation (see the ACSP’s Annual Report for 1955-1956, Cmnd 11, pp. 7-8).