21 JANUARY 1922, Page 21

The National Institute of Agricultural Botany, now fully installed in

its new buildings at Cambridge, has issued its second Annual Report, in which the work of the Institute is clearly described. The trial grounds for testing new cereals and grasses, the official seed-testing station, and the potato-testing station at Ormskirk promise to be of the greatest value to farmers by bringing science to bear upon their industry. The Institute needs two thousand Fellows, subscribing a guinea a year. The Prime Minister has asked to be enrolled as one of the first Life Fellows.