REVIEWS, 
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REVIEWS.* 
The Settiemesit ef Eyropean Peasantry in the 
iVloyntagns of the Tropies. 
By Dr. STUHLMANN. 
(Uber die Ansiedelung Europäischer Bauern in den Gebirgen von 
Ceylon und Deutsch-Ostafrika. Tropenpflanzer, VI., 1902, p. 10.) 
In this article the well-known lieutenant of Emin Pasha, now 
Director of Agriculture in German East Africa, gives an account of 
his visit to the site of Sir Samuel Baker’s experiments in farming 
near Nuwara Eliya in 1848, and describes their failure, mainly due to 
the poverty of the soil and other natural causes. He goes on to 
mention the importation by Baker of European helpers and their 
subsequent settlement as market gardeners, &c., following this with a 
discussion of the prospects of successful settlement of German 
peasantry in the mountains of East Africa. He regards the English 
a,nd the Germans as much less suited to such permanent tropical 
colonization than the French, who go prepared to settle finally in their 
adopted home, and have, rendered Reunion, Mauritius, and similar 
••olonies almost completely French. 
J. C..,W, 
Glimpses of Tropioal ^grioultyro. 
By E. M. WILCOX. 
(Columbus, Ohio, 1900.) 
A. GENERAL account of the agriculture of Ceylon and Java, and of 
the organizations f<fi’ its scientific assistance, by a former visiting 
worker at Peradeniya. 
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The Ägricyityre of Souttierin Asia» 
By a. PRETER. 
(Einiges über Sudasiatisches Agrikultur ; Berlin, 1901.) 
An interesting critical account of the present condition and the 
future outlook of agriculture in Ceylon, the Straits, and Java, by a 
former visiting worker at Peradeniya. 
J. C. W. 
The articles which appear under this head are written primarily for 
the Ceylon constituency of this Journal, and deal chiefly with advances 
in Science which are of immediate local interest. , 
