CONTENTS 



"Petroleum": by SIR BOVERTON REDWOOD, Bart., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., Adviser on 

 Petroleum to the British Admiralty, Home Office, and India Office, and to the 

 Port of London Authority, author of Petroleum, its Production and Use; Treatise 

 on Petroleum, etc . . _ . 409 



"Agriculture" (Progress of Scientific Research: British Agricultural Organisa- 

 tion), by ALFRED DANIEL HALL, M.A., F.R.S., Commissioner under British 

 Development Act, late Director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, 

 formerly Principal of Wye Agricultural College, author of The Soil, Fertilisers 

 and Manures, etc 411 



"Dry-farming in America": by ELLERY C. CHILCOTT, in charge dry land agricul- 

 tural investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture 418 



"American Dairy-farming": by HUBERT EVERETT VAN NORMAN, Professor of 



dairy husbandry, Pennsylvania State College 420 



"Poultry-farming": by JOHN HENRY ROBINSON, editor of Farm Poultry, and 



author of Principles and Practice of Poultry Farming . 422 



"Horticulture" : by JOHN WEATHERS, F.R.H.S., lecturer on Horticulture to the 



Middlesex County Council, author of Practical Guide to Garden Plants, etc. . 426 



"Bee-keeping": by THOS. WILLIAM COWAN, author of British Bee-keepers' 



Guide-book, The Honey Bee, etc., inventor of Cowan's Rapid Extractor, etc. 429 



"The Fur Industry": by SIEGMUND POLITZER, of Phillips, Politzer & Co., fur 



merchants, London 431 



"The Cotton Industry and Trade" : by PROFESSOR SYDNEY JOHN CHAPMAN, Profes- 

 sor of Political Economy ard Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in Manchester 

 University, author of The Cotton Industry, The Lancashire Cotton Industry, 

 etc. .... 433 



"The Linen Industry": by THOMAS WOODHOUSE, Head of the Weaving and 



Textile Designing Department, Technical. College, Dundee . . . . . 437 



"The Jute Industry": . . . ) by THOMAS WOODHOUSE ( 438 



"The Rope-Making Industry" : . ) (ut supra) < ..... 440 



"The Wool Industry": by PROFESSOR ALDRED FARRER BARKER, M.Sc., Professor 

 of Textile Industries at Bradford Technical College, editor of Journal of Brad- 

 ford Textile Society, author of Wool Carding and Combing, The Wool Year- 

 Book, etc : . . 440 



"New Fibres": by C. F. CROSS, B.S.C., F.I.C7, joint author of Researches in 



Cellulose ;'"./._ 444 



SECTION VIII. 

 "Sports and Games": by ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWNE, M.A., sub-editor of The 



Field, London 445 



"American Sports" : by WALTER CAMP, author of Book of College Sports, American 



Football, etc .,. : . ;. 472 



PART II. NATIONAL AND LOCAL: 



SECTION I. THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 

 "English History": (i. The Crown; 2. The Empire; 3. Domestic Politics in the 



United Kingdom; 4. Labour Questions, by THE EDITOR. 5. English Finance, 



by W. M. J. WILLIAMS, author of The King's Revenue. 6. British Obituary, 



by THE EDITOR) 475 



"The United Kingdom" (with England and Wales): by O. J. R. HOWARTH (ut 



supra), HAROLD MACFARLANE, F. Roy. Stat. Soc., and^others . . .... 



"Scotland": by DONALD MUIR, of the Glasgow Herald .' .'":. 



"Ireland": by W. R. WELLS, assistant-editor of the Irish Times . . . : . v ; . 

 "India": by JAMES SUTHERLAND COTTON, M.A., editor of The Imperial Gazetteer 



of India, etc. 603 



"Ceylon": by W. MARTIN LEAKE, secretary to the Ceylon Association, London 623 

 "British Malaya" : by the Malay States Information Agency, London ... 625 

 "Hong Kong": by HERMAN SPOONER, Technical Superintendent, Indian section, 



Imperial Institute 635 



"Wei-hai-wei" : by HERMAN SPOONER (ut supra) . . 637 



"Fiji, and Dependencies" : by ALBERT BRUCE JACKSON, Technical Superintendent, 



Australian Section, Imperial Institute . 6^8 



"Gibraltar": . 1 f . .' .' .' .' .' 640 



"Cyprus": . . Vby ALBERT BRUCE JACKSON (ut supra^\ 640 



"Malta": . . ) " 1 . . 642 



"British East Africa": by FRANK R. CANA, F.R.G.S., author of South Africa from 



the Great Trek to the Union 643 



