| RefNo | EC/1946/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XV, 125; A02245 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Engledow, Sir Frank Leonard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | F L Engledow M.A., C.M.G, Drapers' Professor of Agriculture; Director of the Imperial Bureau of Plant Genetics; Fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge. Well known for his investigations on methods for determining the yielding capacity of various farm crops and for his studies on the factors effecting yield - both of which have proved of value to the breeders of economic plants. Of late, the time formerly devoted to research has had to be given up to administrative work largely on behalf of the Government. It has entailed a number of overseas missions all of them connected with the development of agricultural research. Thus in 1927 he was in Nigeria organizing the breeding of cotton; in 1929 in Trinidad enquiring into the organisation of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture for teaching and research: in 1933 in Malaya smoothing out difficulties at the Rubber Research Institute and planning for its research programme: in 1935 in Ceylon, Assam and the Netherland Indies [Indonesia] in connection with tea and its manufacturing processes: in 1938 in West Indies [Caribbean] as a member of the W. Indian Royal Commission and in 1943 as a representative at the United National Conference on Food and Agriculture at Hot Springs. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. G Udny Yule
From Personal Knowledge. R H Biffen; F T Brooks; R George Stapledon; E J Maskell; F E Fritsch; R A Fisher; G E Briggs; E J Russell (A C E); F W Oliver (A V H); F H A Marshall |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA902 | Engledow; Sir; Frank Leonard (1890 - 1985) | 1890 - 1985 |