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THIS little book serves to illustrate a thesis which frequently finds expression in this journal—that science embraces more than the mere ascertainment and enunciation of the laws of Nature: it connotes a logical system universal in its application. When in 1900 the Irish Department of Agriculture, in association with a leading firm of brewers, set out to solve the problem of what is the best barley to grow in Ireland, they attacked it scientifically. They cleared the ground of so-called practical opinions depending, as they do so often, on irrational ideas and traditions, and from the outset employed the tools upon which, as Kelvin once declared, all accurate scientific work must be founded, namely, weighing and measurement.
The Barley Crop: a Record of some Recent Investigations.
By Dr. Herbert Hunter. Pp. viii + 166. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1926.) 10s. 6d. net.
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B., A. John Barleycorn. Nature 118, 871 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118871a0
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