Agriculture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., DCL, LLD, FRS, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3203
Scope and Contents
Portrait photograph of Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., DCL, LLD, FRS was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. He founded an experimental farm at his home at Rothamsted Manor that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Soldier Students, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3165
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a group of Canadian soldiers in a classroom at Edinburgh University being taught by Professor Robert Wallace about the technical side of agriculture in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Story about a very cold week before St Patrick's Day, 4 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/16
Scope and Contents
Story about a very cold week before St Patrick's Day 'They had so little to do out that they [divot] to the taking out the tails'. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
4 June 1887
Story about how kelp-making came to North Uist, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/165
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about how kelp-making came to North Uist. The story tells how when Am Moraire Ban [Am Morair Bàn] came to North Uist he brought his wife, three children and factor, called Kingsburgh, and they lived at Sollas [Solas]. They met a crofter at Bailemhartain whose animals were emaciated whereupon Kingsburgh told the man that Lady MacDonald had come among the Uist tentantry for assistance to...
Dates:
20 January 1871
The Director of Agriculture for Bombay and Office Staff, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/679
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the Director of Agriculture and the office staff in a group in front of the office with plow in front the men in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
The libraries of the Agricultural and Food Research Service, 1991
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/2/980
Scope and Contents
Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1991. Part 2.
Dates:
1991
University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans, 1951-1978
Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/D/5
Scope and Contents
The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans consists of:
plans: proposed car park plans, (1971
plans: College of Agriculture, (1954-1974)
plans: King's Buildings Centre, (1964-1973)
plans: Maths / Physics Institute, (1965-1975)
plans: zoology building, (1959-1973
plans: department of animal...
Dates:
1951-1978
University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: College of Agriculture, 1954-1974
Archival Record
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/D/5.2
Scope and Contents
University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: College of Agriculture consists of:
- plans: Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture, (1954-1955)
- plans: Edinburgh College of Agriculture workshop extension, (1969-1974)
Dates:
1954-1974
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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PJM, The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates
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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area
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University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development
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University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development: buildings plans
Various tales, verse and notes., c.1906
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW381
Scope and Contents
Series of tales, verse and notes written by Alexander Carmichael. The papers include, a tale headed 'An Righ' written 31 August 1906, a tale about Niall Glundubh MacNeill of Barra, notes on Ciosmal Castle, Barra, notes on the death on Donald Gillies in 1823 in St Kilda and a poem entitled 'Oran a Mart' . Also includes notes on agricultural tenure, tales and poetry by Dugald MacInnes and a lecture by Alexander Carmichael on 'literature and customes of the Scottish Gaels'. The...
Dates:
c.1906
Vocabularly note for 'Luirgneachan' and 'Gearraiste', 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/43
Scope and Contents
Vocabularly note for 'Luirgneachan' and 'Gearraiste', the former being 'that part of the tether next the foot' and the latter 'the part next the ciopain the udalan between'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1901