August/September CFRW Book Club Meeting

Join us for our August/September 2020 CFRW Book Club Meeting! Storm water fills our creeks and rivers that are often polluted with pesticides, so this is the perfect time for our this month’s selection, Pesticides and Pollution by Dr. Mellanby. We’ll have a discussion via Zoom on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 10:30AM. Join us here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9617005052

“In Pesticides and Pollution, Dr. Mellanby examines the problems of pollution of air, land, river, and the sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leakages, over-drainage, mistakes and mismanagement, in Britain to-day. He sets out to placate neither farmers nor naturalists, but to explain in each case what is happening, to point to both dangers and practical necessities, and to discuss what steps should be taken.”

Dr. Mellanby was the Director of the Nature Conservancy’s Monk Wood Experimental Station and was the head of the Entomology department at Rothamsted in the UK. Rothamsted Research, known as Rothamsted Experimental Station and then the Institute of Arable Crops Research is one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world. For many years, Dr. Mellanby did medical entomology research in Britain and the tropics. He also started the journal Environmental Pollution in 1970 which led to the honorable  ” Mellanby Review Award”  that is biennially awarded to distinguished scientists.

Copies of Pesticides and Pollution by Kenneth Mellanby are “out of print” and will not be available to purchase at Pomegranate Books. You can purchase the e-book version from Barnes & Noble, Kobo or Amazon, or purchase a used copy online.