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Yorkshire Farm at Garforth and at the South-Eastern Agricultural 

 College at Wye, and it may be noted that the latter institu- 

 tion has now been formally affiliated with the University of 

 London. 



Part II. of the Appendix to the Report contains a series of 

 accounts of the results of the principal experiments conducted 

 by institutions aided by the Board. Among the subjects of 

 these experiments were the application of various manures to 

 grass, roots, potatoes, and hops ; the feeding of sheep and 

 bullocks ; the breeding of sheep ; the seeding of oats and 

 barley ; the rotation of crops ; experiments with barley ; spray- 

 ing of charlock ; and experiments on ripening and churning of 

 cream. 



Part III. of the Appendix contains a statement showing that 

 the total amount expended on agricultural education by English 

 and Welsh County Councils in 1900-1901 was about ^"86,000, 

 or about £7,000 more than in the previous year. 



Memoirs of the Geological Survey : Summary of Progress for 



1 90 1. Price is. 



This work contains an account of the field work of the Geological 

 Survey in the United Kingdom and of the chemical, petrological 

 and palaeontological work in connection therewith. Progress has 

 been made in Cornwall and Devon in sub-dividing the great 

 killas-formation, and even the granite of the Land's End area 

 has proved susceptible of division. In the South Wales area the 

 detailed examination of the coalfield has proceeded as far west 

 as Swansea, and some new inliers of Silurian rocks have been 

 detected in Gower. The resurvey of the Midland coalfields 

 has been continued. Analyses of South Wales coals have been 

 commenced, and some notes on weathering of magnesian lime- 

 stone have been published. In Scotland, further particulars 

 have been obtained with regard to the highland schists and the 



