It ly announced this week that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr, Randall Thomas Davidson, who will ril, is considering the iment, although the only official statement which can be obtained from Lambeth Palace is that the. Arch made a decision. now is in better health than he has been for three yours, and, des his age, he still through a amount' of work which would tax the strength of many a much younger man. If Parliament ape Proves the revised version of the Prayer Book adopted by the re-Dbresontative bodies of the Church during the autumn, then De, David-ton will have seen uecomplished one Uf the great works ut his life.
he retires, he will, it is believe ed, be the first Archbishop Canterbury to do so since August first. held office in SUF. AN Di Davidson's predecessors buck to the time of Cranmer, who was burned the stake in 1356, died in office. Before that time, the records appa ently are uncertain. The length time that Dr. Davidson has held the office—25 yours next February—also is a record since the time of rer of Agriculture, speaking at the Agricultural Re: search Conference in London, marked:—"On your agenda there is 4 question of setting up @ chain of Imperial Research Stations, and I hope we may be able to introduce an alternating cut, and not only have research workers coming to this country from other parts of the Dominions, but that we may develop the possibilities for our workers to go out and get fresh views and new ideas in other climates. 1 need not, perhaps, develop the great reward which we may expect from ce-operation; I weed, perhaps, mention only one instance, the researches which are now going on into the mineral con-Gition of natural pasture. Here We have work going on at Aberdeen, and it is linked up with researches in New Zealand, Kenya, and Australia. Well, apart from organized ce-operation in any partieular direction, the Conference will to consider how best to ensure proper diffusion of knowledge throughout the Empire on researches which are taking place, and how to ensure that results which have once been reached are not forgotten."
In connection with reeraitment, of the Dominions Office,
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