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been sown and seedlings planted. A forester has been appointed, 

 who resides on the estate and acts under the general supervision 

 of the Committee. At present eleven men and four boys are em- 

 ployed. (Further information respecting this estate appeared in the 

 Journal of the Board of Agriculture for June, 1909, p. 219^). 



Alice Holt Forest. In the Report of the Departmental Com- 

 mittee on Forestry, to which reference has been made, it was re- 

 commended that the Forest of Alice Holt should be made avai- 

 lable as a demonstration area tor the practical study of Forestry. 

 In order to carry out this recommendation as far as possible the 

 Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests obtained in 1904 

 from Dr. Schlich, Ph. D., C. I. E., an exhaustive report on the 

 condition of each of the woods comprised in the Forest. In this 

 Report Dr. Schlich expressed his general approval of the opera- 

 tions which had recently been carried out, and developed in de- 

 tail a working plan for their continuation in the future. In dra- 

 wing up the working plan regard was had to this point, one of the 

 objects being the provision of the best object-lesson in the treat- 

 ment of woods of this description from a practical point of ^iew, 

 according to the methods of scientific forestry . 



A. D. HALL. Annual Report, for 1909, on the Rothamsted 



Experiments. (Lawes Agricultural Trust. Rothamsted Expe- 

 rimental Station. Harpenden Annual Report for 1909. St. Al- 

 bans, 1910). 



John Bennet Lawes founded the Rothamsted Experimental Station 

 in 1834. In 1 843 systematic field experiments were begun and tlie servi- 

 ces of J. H. Gilbert were obtained as Director. The long association 

 of these two gentlemen terminated with the death of Lawes in 1900. 



The station has been maintained entirely at the cost of the late 

 Sir John B. Lawes. In 1889 he constituted a Trust for the conti- 

 nuance of investigations, settling upon it the Laboratory (built by 

 public subscription and presented to him in 1885), certain areas of 

 land on which the experimental plots were situated, and 100 ooo 

 (equal to 2 525 ooo francs). 



The management is entrusted to a committee nominated by the 

 Royal Society, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Chemical and 

 Linnean Societies, and the owner of Rothamsted. 



In 1906 Mr J. F. Mason presented the Committee with 1000 

 (25 250 frcs.) for the Bacteriological Laboratory, together with a grant 

 towards its maintenance. In 1907 the Goldsmiths Company made a 

 grant ot 10000 (252 500 francs). 



