BRITISH EMPIRE, In England. the most im po•tant station is that established in 1843 by Sir John Ii, Lawes, at Rothamsted. with his own funds, and confirmed with a trust fund of £100, (100. This station has done very valuable work on fertilizers and the nutrition of plants and ani mals. Agricultural researches are also carried on at the agricultural colleges at Aspatria, Ciren cester, Downton (Salisbury), Uckfiehl, and Wye, Yorkshire College (Leeds), University College (Nottingham), University Extension College (Reading),Du•ham College of Science (Neweas tle-upon-Tyne),University Botanic Garden (Cam bridge), Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew), and un der the auspices of the Board of Agriculture, the Royal Agricultural Society of England. the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, and a number of county education committees and councils.
In Scotland, similar work is done by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, the Agricultural Research Association of the North Eastern Counties, the Royal Botanic Gar den at Edinburgh, Mareschal College of Aberdeen University, and the Glasgow and West of Scot land Technical College; in Ireland, by the Royal Dublin Society, Glasnevin Agricultural College, and Trinity College Botanic Gardens (Glas nevin) ; in Wales, by the University Colleges of Wales and North Wales. In Canada, the prin
cipal stations are the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa, with branches in British Co lumbia, Northwest Territory, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia, and the station at the Agricultural College of Guelph, Ontario. In the British West Indies, stations for the improvement of sugar cane are maintained on Barhadoes, Antigua, and Trinidad, and botanical stations on these islands and on Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Tobago. under the Im perial Department of Agriculture for the West ladies, and at Jamaica by the Department of Public Gardens and Plantations. In Cape Col ony, there is a government laboratory and herba rium at Cape Town, and a station at the agri cultural schools at Elsenhurg. In India. there are more than forty stations—farms and botanic gardens; in Australia, over thirty; and in New Zealand. eleven.