Abstract
AN important address has been recently delivered by Prof. Maercker, of Halle, to the German Chemical Society (Ber. 1897, p. 464), summarising the advances which have been made in agricultural chemistry during the last twenty-five years. Prof. Maercker pointed out that the term Agricultural Chemistry meant more at the present time than the mere application of chemistry to agriculture, as shown by the fact that the agricultural chemist, in his efforts to assist the farmer, was often more concerned with the biological sciences than with chemistry; while, in addition to his purely scientific work, he was required to take account of economic questions of the day possessing special interest to agriculturists. The following account of the most important parts of the address is given under the following heads:—I. Plant-food; II. Soils and Manures; III. Artificial Selection. It is reproduced here by the kind permission of the editor of the Imperial Institute Journal.
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