The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England

Abstract

THE current number of this Journal furnishes an excellent illustration of the wide limits of agricultural science, and the varied knowledge required of its professors. There is perhaps no art or occupation which so directly requires elucidation from so many sciences; hence the varied nature of the bill of fare provided by the Journal Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society; In proof of this assertion we may take the contents of the entire volume for 1886, the second part of which lies before us. Pathology is treated of in papers upon foot-and-mouth disease; Pasteur and his work; lung parasites, by the late T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D.; and abortion in cows. Anatomy and physiology are the topics in Prof. Brown's paper upon organs of the animal body, their forms and uses. Chemistry and botany are amply represented in reports by Mr. Carruthers and Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker. Entomology in the form of papers on the recent appearance of the Hessian fly is the theme of Miss E. A. Ormerod. Social science is illustrated by Mr. H. M. Jenkins's report upon farming and agricultural training in reformatory and industrial schools, and engineering in the report of the Judges on the Exhibition of Implements at Norwich.

The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Part II., 1886. (John Murray, Albemarle Street.)