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Insects and the Life of Man - Collected Essays on Pure Science and Applied Biology (Paperback)
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Insects and the Life of Man - Collected Essays on Pure Science and Applied Biology (Paperback)
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When Patrick A. Buxton was appointed by the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1926 to head their Department of
Medical Entomology, he had formed the opinion that the control of
the insect-borne diseases of the tropics was being impeded by lack
of knowledge about the physiology of insects. He persuaded the
Board of Management to agree to the selection of a lecturer who
would endeavour to advance the subject of insect physiology; and at
the suggestion of Sir Gowland Hopkins, under whom I had worked at
Cambridge, and with the support of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher,
Secretary of the Medical Research Council and a member of the Board
of Management, I was appointed to this post - with opportunity for
extensive travel to study medical entomology in the tropics and
with abundant time for research. Some seventeen years later, during
the war years, W. W. C. Topley, as Secretary of the Agricultural
Research Council, was faced with the urgent need for improved
methods of control of insect pests in agriculture and horticulture
by insecticidal or other means. As a support for this objective he
recommended the establishment of a Unit of Insect Physiology to
carry out basic research which would be of potential value to
agriculture; and I was invited to act as director. So once again I
was able to undertake world-wide travel - to learn the elements of
agricultural entomology.
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