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WITH the death on Nov. 6, at the age of sixty years, of Thomas Barlow Wood, Drapers professor of agriculture in the University of Cambridge, has passed away one of the giants of agricultural research of the last quarter of a century. His scientific labours were begun at a time when British agriculturists were still under the spell of the brilliant researches of Lawes and Gilbert at Rothamsted. Despite the work of these pioneers, however, the science of animal nutrition was in its infancy. The stockbreeder still fed his animals according to the time-honoured methods of his ancestors, and such terms as ‘balanced rations’, ‘maintenance’ and ‘production requirements’, were not to be found in his vocabulary. The results of Kellner's classical feeding trials in Germany were only just beginning to filter through to the attention of the scientific agriculturist in Great Britain.
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W., H. Prof. T. B. Wood, C.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 124, 800 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124800a0
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