Plant life / by Maxwell T. Masters.

  • Masters, Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden), 1833-1907.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plant life / by Maxwell T. Masters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    well as of Van Tiegliem’s “ Traitd de Botanique,” the French translation of Sachs’“ Physiologie Vegetale” by Micheli, and Deherain’s “ Conrs de Chimie Agri- cole.” The works and memoirs of Darwin have, of course, been laid under contribution, as well as numerous scattered papers by various authors. More especially the writer has to acknowledge his obligations to the voluminous records of the noble series of cultural experiments carried out at Rothamsted for so many years by Sir John Lawes and Dr. Gilbert. So far as at present published, these records and reports are chiefly to be found in suc- cessive volumes of the Royal Agricultural Society’s Journal. The very elaborate papers on the mixed herbage of Permanent Meadow from which most of the facts alluded to in the chapter headed “The Battle of Life” have been taken, are published in the “Philosophical Transactions” of the Royal So- ciety. The “Memorandum Sheet” published by these experimenters supplies annually a condensed summary of the results of their experiments, and is a document that should be carefully studied with due reference to its professed object, by all who have the advancement of agricultural knowledge at heart. April, 1883. M. T. M.