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THE present Professor of Rural Economy at Oxford has made use of the opportunity, afforded by the occurrence of the centenary of the foundation of his professorship, to discuss the general question of agricultural teaching in our Universities. After an interesting description of the life and work of Sibthorp, formerly Professor of Botany at Oxford, who literally gave up his life for the study of natural history on the shores of Greece, Prof. Warington proceeds, in the first place, to consider the important developments, both in the subject and in the means of teaching, which have taken place during the past century. He says:—
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Agricultural Teaching at Oxford1. Nature 55, 449–450 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055449a0
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