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in developing the biological side of this hypothesis, which 

 — after three years of animated discussion '''' "■ ^*' ^*' ^^ — 

 has now become a factor in the administration of Egypt.* 

 The original hypothesis is still unproven, and must so 

 remain, in the absence of extensive records to show the 

 water-levels of past years, but so strong a ease has been 



Year 1895 1900 1905 i9io 



Fig. 71. — Area and Yield of the Egyptian Cotton Crop, 1895-1911. 



made out for the presumption t that, when taken in con- 

 junction with the physiological evidence summarised in 

 the present volume, the proof may be regarded as exhaus- 

 tive. The preliminary solution of one of the neatest 

 problems ever set to agricultural science has thus been 



'f- Report of Cotton Commission, 1910 ; Reports of H.M. Agent and 

 Consul-General on Egypt and the Sudan (Egypt No. 1) 1910, 1911, and 1912. 

 f Ferrar, H. T. ; Lucas, A ; Audebeau, C. 



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