: ' The History of the English Countryside-III, The Development of the Countryside.'
SIR JOHN RUSSELL , F.R.S., D.Sc.(London), who is continuing the scries inaugurated by Mr. Fallaize, is Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science, Paris ; Foreign Member of various Continental Academies, and Director of the well-known Rothamsted Experimental Station. In this, the third talk of the series, ho will deal with ' The Development of the Countryside,' showing how the four-course rotation system of olden times was designed to make each region self-supporting and how it partially gave way before the increasing means of transport and how, today, it has given way still further before the advent of refrigerator transport.