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IT is difficult to convey to this generation any adequate impression of the giant personalities that gave the Victorian era such brilliance and distinction. E. S. Beaven was one of them. Barley was his great life interest : he was the son of a barley grower, and son-in-law of a maltster whose business he entered as a youth ; all his life was spent in handling barley and he knew it more intimately than any of his generation or this. But it was not only as a barley expert that he was known and respected : he was typical of his time, a sturdy, vigorous, forceful personality, outspoken, scathing in his denunciation of anything State-aided or other spoon-feeding agency ; a stout believer in self-help, in some of his contemporaries, and in himself.
Barley Fifty Years of Observation and Experiment.
By Dr. E. S. Beaven. Pp. xx + 394 + 27 plates. (London: Gerald Duckworth and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 30s. net.
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RUSSELL, E. Barley Fifty Years of Observation and Experiment.. Nature 161, 828 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161828a0
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