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WITH the passing on February 24 of Charles Alfred Barber is severed a link with the past, for he belonged to that old school of scientific investigators who were the first to turn their attention to the problems lying behind development in tropical agriculture. When he gained his first acquaintance with it, there was an awakening to the fact that a harvest does not necessarily follow planting. In the East, Ceylon had gained experience from coffee; in the West, Harrison and Bovell had pointed the way to a healthier growth of cane.
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Dr. C. A. Barber, C.I.E. Nature 131, 389 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131389a0
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