Abstract
THE fact that the principal of a large and well-known firm like Messrs. Cooper should start a research laboratory and publish a journal is a satisfactory proof of the widespread interest now being taken in science by all who have to do with agricultural and horticultural matters. The special province of the firm—treatment of insect and fungoid pests—certainly borders more closely than usual on pure science, and no doubt a trained staff would have been wanted in any case. But here we have something more. The laboratory, we are told, “is in no sense a financial venture or business concern.” Its functions are to answer inquiries from farmers, fruitgrowers, and gardeners as to preventive and remedial treatment for diseases of plants and parasitic diseases of animals, to investigate life-histories of various insects, parasites, &c., and generally to advise on subjects relating to economic biology, agricultural chemistry, and bacteriology.
The Journal of the Cooper Research Laboratory.
Edited by Walter E. Collinge, Director. (Berkhamsted: The Cooper Research Laboratory, 1909.)
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The Journal of the Cooper Research Laboratory . Nature 81, 187–188 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081187d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/081187d0
