Abstract
MY friend Mr. Carruthers in the interesting address delivered recently to Section D of the British Association, makes a remark which I confess surprises me. He says (NATURE, September 9, p. 453):—“It is remarkable that in our own country, with all the appliances of scientific cultivation and scientific farming, we have not been able to appreciably surpass the grains which were harvested by our rude ancestors of 2000 years ago.” He mentions in support of this conclusion that “the wheat from lake-dwellings in Switzerland for which I am indebted to Mr. J. T. Lee, F.G.S., are fair samples.”
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