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Agriculture

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Graduates in Agriculture, March 1914, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/301
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Photograph of eleven men who were graduates in agriculture in March 1914 from the [University of Edinburgh]: D.R. Sethi, J. Taylor, E.A. Bell, A.F. Watson, S.T.D. Wallace, P. Sanitwongse, J.C. Rae, A. McLean, J.W. Cassels, P. McConnell, and J.M. Murray.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

J[oseph] Henry Gilbert, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3204
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Portrait photograph of [Sir] J[oseph] Henry Gilbert, an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, Vol 1 No 1, Editor R P Poincelot, New York, Food Products Press. ISSN: 1044-0046 [Journal review], 1991

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/940
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1991. Part 1 and Index.

Dates: 1991
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black, 05 September 1775

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/86
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Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black about clay and ploughing (with draft reply by Black).

Dates: 05 September 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black, 17 April 1775

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/79-80
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Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black about chemistry and agriculture (with some notes by Black).

Dates: 17 April 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black, 30 May 1775

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/83-84
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Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black about the properties of clay and suggesting Black should lecture on agriculture.

Dates: 30 May 1775
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Frederick Lort-Phillips, 11 March 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/13
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Lort-Phillips writes that he agrees Phillpotts-Williams is in too much of a hurry due to fear that others 'will forestall him in taking the lead'. He feels that the Board of Agriculture's policy is the wrong one and emphasises the importance of scientific research in agriculture.

Dates: 11 March 1912
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir John Stirling Ainsworth, 25 August 1909

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/15/22
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Ainsworth writes that he will gladly help with the opportunity for pony breeding that has arisen in relation to the Committee set up by the Selkirk office to report on how far the Congested Districts Board can promote improved agriculture amongst crofters. He suggests that Ewart give evidence before this committee and is glad that the original report is being revised.

Dates: 25 August 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1909

MS 230: Geoponica, including excerpts of De re rustica by Cassianus Bassus, ? late 16th century

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Identifier: MS 230
Contents This manuscript contains the Geoponica, a twenty-book compilation including texts on various agricultural subjects, chiefly drawing on the writings of Cassianus Bassus (6th-7th c.), who himself used the work of an earlier Greek author, Vindonius Anatolius (4th c., also known as Anatolius of Berytus). The Geoponica was written by an unknown writer in the 10th century at the behest of the Emperor Constantine VII...
Dates: ? late 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Notes of lectures on Agriculture taken down by Charles Lyall, 1833-1834

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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0181
Scope and Contents This is a volume of manuscript notes of lectures on agriculture, taken down by Charles Lyall, a student of the University of Edinburgh, during the academic session 1833-1834. The lecturer was probably David Low, who held the Chair of Agriculture from 1831 to 1854.The book covers all aspects of general farming and land management, with sections on crops, cultivation, soil science, livestock, economy and tenant law, and appears to represent a complete course of study, signed off as...
Dates: 1833-1834
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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