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Agriculture

 Subject

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

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Records of Farming at Crofthead, West Lothian

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-523
Scope and Contents

The records are composed of: an account book, in green vellum, of J.Waddel, the farmer at Crofthead, West Lothian, and of his son James Waddel, 1766-1838; and, a notebook containing lectures on various diseases. Also accounts for sales of butter, cheese, 1787-1793.

Dates: 1766-1838
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Science Degrees Committee Minute Book, 1876-1892

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Administration / Faculty of Science and Engineering / Minutes of the Science Degrees Committee and Faculty of Science

Scrapbook of James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855), chemist of Agricultural Society of Scotland

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JOH
Scope and Contents Volume of newspaper clippings, letters, and printed pamphlets. The subjects covered change with the orientation of the book:From the front, the subject is the Irish Potato Famine, and contains materials dated 1845-1846. Interleaved throughout the newspaper clippings are letters and notes, as well as pamphlets about potato disease, many of which are written by Johnston. Other sources for the pamphlets include the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, reports by John F. Hodges, the...
Dates: 1845-1851
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Development