 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1900 - 544 pages
...Bevfilkerungsstatistik. Pp. 162. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1899. -Contributed by Roland P. Falkner. IN SEPTEMBER, 1898, Sir William Crookes, in his presidential address to the British Association,' took an extremely pessimistic view of the world's future wheat supply. The following quotation illustrates... | |
 | Edward Cressy - Inventions - 1923 - 666 pages
...food is produced and the rate at which the demand for it is increasing. This was the position when in 1898 Sir William Crookes in his Presidential Address to the British Association sounded a note of warning. The virgin soils of Canada, the Western States, and Argentina, rich, as... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1920 - 580 pages
...a population of seventy-seven millions totally unprovided for. ' Just a century later, in September 1898, Sir William Crookes, in his Presidential address to the British Association, taking a world survey of wheat supplies, declared that ' England and all civilised nations stand in... | |
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This was the position when in 1898 Sir William Crookes in his Presidential Address to the British Association sounded a note of warning. 