| Description | Correspondence primarily regarding the future of the Oxford University Institute of Agrarian Affairs (IAA) between Leonard Elmhirst and: W Oakshott, K C Wheare, and A Bullock, Vice-chancellors and F Sandford, Registrar, Oxford University; Sir William Holford; J O Jones, IAA; J R Mills, University Chest; and C E White, Estate Steward, Dartington Hall. Subjects include: the establishment of a Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics in the United Kingdom which would embrace the International Abstracting Service in the field of agricultural economics; the drawing together into one building at 31 St Giles', the IAA, the Institute for Research into Agricultural Economics, and the International Digesting Service that the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau organisation wishes to establish in Oxford; and the incorporation of the IAA into the Institute of Agricultural Economics in 1971. Material includes: an Annual report 1963-1964; a memorandum to Dartington Hall Trustees; and a press cutting. |