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EVEN when they forsake their opprobrious blue, and appear in hodden-grey, the publications of H.M. Stationery Office have but a feeble appeal to the lay public, but this book—in the words of the Minister of Agriculture, “not exactly a popular account” of agricultural research, but “at least one which with little trouble an educated farmer or even townsman might understand”—is in a different category. Its success as an appeal to the lay press has been undoubted, and deservedly so, for it is written in an attractive style, is profusely illustrated, and, as a whole, makes a good journalistic story. Much of the matter embodies results already familiar to readers of NATURE through the medium of recognised scientific journals, which it would be tedious to notice in any detail here. A novel feature of this publication, however, is the account which it gives of new work in progress, and even of the speculations and hopes of the workers engaged on it.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Research and the Land: an Account of Recent Progress in Agricultural and Horticultural Science in the United Kingdom.
By V. E. Wilkins. Pp. xiv + 388 + 34 plates. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1926.) Paper, 2s. 6d. net; cloth, 3s. 6d. net.
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Research and the Land: an Account of Recent Progress in Agricultural and Horticultural Science in the United Kingdom . Nature 118, 799 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118799a0
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