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On the Higher Teaching of Agriculture

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NOT the least among the benefits of the International Health Exhibition was the series of Conferences held in connection therewith; and of these, one of the most valuable was the Conference on Education held in August last. Dr. Armstrong's paper on science-teaching in schools has been already noticed in NATURE (vol. xxxi. p. 19), and the paper before us, by the Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, is another product of the Conferences. The author looks on agriculture broadly, as extending, like the theme of the poet of the “Georgics,”—

On the Higher Teaching of Agriculture.

By the Rev. J. B. McClellan (Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1884.)

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On the Higher Teaching of Agriculture . Nature 31, 167–168 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031167b0

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