Wadham: Scientist for Land and People Book

"Samuel Wadham arrived from England in 1926 as Professor of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. A man who was prepared to ignore heat, dust and flies to talk to farmers in remote districts, Wadham defied the then-accepted image of a university educator. He was unpretentious in dress and manners, and at ease socially in all surroundings." "Australia became Wadham's adoptive land and he was aggressively proud of many aspects of the country and its achievements. During his residence here of some forty-six years he became more Australian than most academics of Australian birth." Ross Humphreys documents the broad panorama of Sir Samuel Wadham's concerns and interests and, through access to the Wadham family papers, also reveals the complexities of his character and his family life.