Excerpt from Address to the Chemical Section of the British Association

For what is agricultural chemistry? It is the chemistry of the atmosphere, the chemistry of the soil the chemistry of vegetation, and the chemistry of animal life and growth. And but a very imperfect indication of the amount of labour which has been devoted of recent years to the investigation of these various branches of what might at first sight seem a limited subject will suffice to convince you how hopeless a task it would be to seek to do more than direct attention to a few points of special interest. Indeed, devoting to the purpose such leisure as I have been able to command, the more I have attempted to become acquainted with the vast literature which has been accumulated on the subject, the more difficulty have I felt in making a selection of illustrations which should not convey an idea of the limits, rather than of the extent, of the labour which has been expended, and of the results which have been attained, in agricultural research.

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