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VI. 



The history of agricultural development. History of science 

 connected with agriculture. Biographical notices of Agricul- 

 tural worthies. 



W. H. R. CURTLER. A Short History of English Agriculture. 



- Oxford, 1909, pp. VIII+37I. (Notice in Exper. Stat. Rec., 

 Vol. XXII, May 1910, No. 6, Washington). 



This volume gives an account of the whole period of English 

 agriculture, but with more particular emphasis laid on the period 

 from the beginning of the seventeenth century to 1908, inclusive. 



H. L. GRAY. Yeoman Farming in Oxfordshire from the Six- 

 teenth Century to the Nineteenth. (The Quarterly Journal 

 of Economics, February 1910, p. 263. Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.). 



J. REYNOLDS GREEN. A History of Botany, 1860-1900: being a 

 continuation of Sachs' "History of Botany, 1530-1860." 



- Pp. 542. Oxford, 1909. 



This is a worthy continuation of Sachs' classical History of Bo- 

 tany. Adhering to Sachs' main lines of treatment, the book aims 

 to show what has been the trend of thought in the different sec- 

 tions into which Sachs divided the subject, selecting for notice some 

 leading memoirs. 



The work is divided in three Books : Morphology, Anatomy of 

 Plants, Physiology of Plants. There is a good bibliography on the 

 subjects treated. 



" The application of research, says the author, in vegetable 

 physiology to the problems of agriculture was a feature of the 

 whole period under review. At its close those problems were as 

 insistent as at any time during its process. Though many new 

 facts were ascertained they gave rise themselves to further inquiry 

 and new questions continually came to the front. Among the 



