Caird, Sir

JAMES, agriculturist, born at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1816. He received his education at the High School and University of Edinburgh. His close study of the subjects of land and farming led to the publication of English Agriculture; The Landed Interest; India, the Land and the People; and other works. The pa age of the bill in Parliament providing for the i collection of agricultural statistics in the United King dom was largely due to his exertions. Died Feb. 10, 1892. Cairnes, JOHN ELLIOT, economist, born in County Louth, Ireland, Dec. 26, 1823. He was appointed to the chair of Political Economy in Dublin, in 1856; in 1859 accepted a similar position in Queen's College, Galway, and in 1866 in University College, London. He was a powerful and independent thinker, whose opinions were the result of his own research. Among recent English economists he was second only to Mill. Died July 8, 1875.