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Agriculture

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

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Progress of Canada, 1918-1919, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2498
Scope and Contents

Table of the progress that Canada made in population and agriculture in 1918 and 1919.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Proof copy of article on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History', 1881

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/4
Scope and Contents First proof copy of an article by Sir Archibald Geikie on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History' from printers Clay, Sons and Taylor, for Macmillan the publisher in 1881. This looked at ancient peoples and legendary figures, puting them in the context of the evolution of the natural world. Including elements such as the impact of the devlopment of commerce and the move from an agricultural to an urban industrial society, Sir Archibald Geikie mapped them...
Dates: 1881

Science Degrees Committee Minute Book, 1876-1892

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1/2
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, lists of candidates for exams, exam questions details of reports by examiners, changes in chairs and regulations, results of exams. The volume also covers physical and natural science and engineering, public health and agriculture.

Dates: 1876-1892

Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., DCL, LLD, FRS, 1870s-1930s

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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

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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

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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...
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

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