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THE death at his house at Wormshill, Kent, on April 7, at the age of seventy years, of Sir Henry Rew removes a leading authority on agricultural economics and, in the old sense of the word, statistics. For some years prior to 1906 he was in charge of the Statistical Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and after his promotion in that year to the post of assistant secretary, his predominant interest lay in the annual reports on agricultural statistics, for which he was personally responsible. To his work in this field is largely due the fullness and comparability of the series of returns on British agriculture. His initiative may be exemplified by the estimates made by a committee of the Royal Statistical Society, from returns from representative dairies and slaughterhouses of the production of milk and meat in the British Isles.
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Sir Henry Rew, K.C.B. Nature 123, 650 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123650b0
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