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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND 
FORESTRY EXHIBITION, 1905. 
Further progress and development marked the Education 
Exhibition, held for the third successive year in connec- 
tion with the Society’s Show at Park Royal. In 1903, 
the exhibits were sent by the Experimental Stations and 
Agricultural Colleges ; in 1904, Forestry was added and 
received extensive illustration ; in 1905, Meteorology was also 
included, an excellent exhibition illustrating meteorological 
phenomena being organised by the Royal Meteorological 
Society. Thus, in 1905, all departments of science applicable 
to rural economy were illustrated in three main divisions of 
Agricultural Education, Agricultural Meteorology, and British 
Forestry. 
The detailed organisation was undertaken by the Society’s 
Education Committee, with the assistance of expert members, 
including Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., Mr. George Marshall, 
Dr. W. Somerville, and Mr. Daniel Watney. The Society is 
particularly -indebted to Mr. Elwes, Mr. Marshall, and Dr. 
Somerville for their kindness in explaining personally the 
technical significance of the Forestry exhibits to visitors ; and 
also to Mr. William Marriott, Assistant Secretary of the Royal 
Meteorological Society, for his lectures on “ Meteorology in 
relation to Agriculture,” given daily during the Show. 
Lord Moreton (Chairman of the Society’s Education Com- 
mittee) and myself acted as Stewards of the Exhibition. 
The following are notes of the exhibits sent by the 
respective contributors to the Education and Meteorological 
sections, the Forestry section being described by Professor 
W. R. Fisher, B.A. (President of the Royal English Arbori- 
cultural Society). 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND METEOROLOGY. 
I. Rothamsted Experimental Station. — The Lawes Agri- 
cultural Trust showed the following series of diagrams : — 
(i.) Diagrams showing washing out of carbonate of lime in the Rothamsted 
soils, and the effect of manures on the rate at which the lime disappears. 
(ii.) Diagrams illustrating the restoration of carbonate of lime and other 
bases to the soil by the growth of plants. 
(iii.) Turfs and diagrams showing the composition of the natural herbage 
growing on chalked and unchalked land allowed to run wild at Rothamsted. 
(iv.) Diagrams illustrating the accumulation of fertility when land is 
allowed to run wild. 
(y.) Specimens of various kinds of lime and manures, with diagrams 
showing the relative amount of base they add to or take away from the soil. 
The exhibit illustrated certain investigations connected 
with the amount of carbonate of lime in the soil. The natural 
