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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 1 - Europe
  - 1 - Great Britain/ British Isles

Ref No	MCR/1/1/10
Alt Ref No	MR/10
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 1.2
Title	Board of Agriculture Advisory Committee on Agricultural Science
Description	Printed minutes of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Advisory Committee on Agricultural Science, and typescript and manuscript correspondence regarding the Committee's activities, with many from the Committee's Secretary, A B Bruce. Includes letters arranging visits taken by Prain and Professor [John Bretland] Farmer to investigate progress of research of grant holders. Includes typescript and manuscript reports on research undertaken by Special Research Grant holders and further grant applications and nominations for scholarships in agriculture and veterinary science. Includes memorandum, 3 Jul 1916, by Sir Sydney Olivier relating to a proposed agricultural survey. File is not arranged chronologically. Printed material includes: - D W Steuart, I Jörgensen, 'Notes on the Atmospheric Electrical Potential Gradient in the Industrial Districts around Leeds, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. SESSION 1913-1914. (Edinburgh: Robert Grant [and] Son, 1914) - BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES. REGULATIONS FOR GRANTS IN AID OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES 1915-1916 (London: Darling and Son for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1915) - H S Leigh, REPORT ON THE FOOD FOUND IN THE ROOK, STARLING AND CHAFFINCH.
Date	1913-4 Aug 1917
Subject	Agriculture Research
	Agriculture
	Dairying
	Plant physiology
	Plant diseases
	Livestock
Related Material	MCR/1/1/10 and MCR/1/1/11 were originally bound as one volume, but have since been separated into two parts. See MCR/1/1/11 for the second part of this volume.
Format	Manuscript papers
	Published documents
	Typescript
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 folder
Language	English

Associated persons and organisations

Code	Name	Dates
DS/UK/187	Prain; Sir; David (1857-1944); Knight; British botanist and director of Kew	1857-1944
DS/UK/211	Farmer; John Bretland (1865-1944); Botanist	1865-1944
DS/UK/370	Bruce; A B (Fl 1914-1916)	Fl 1914-1916
DS/UK/369	Olivier; Sydney Haldane (1859-1943); 1st Baron Olivier; civil servant	1859-1943
DS/UK/365	Great Britain and Ireland; Board of Agriculture; Advisory Committee on Agricultural Science; Fl 1910 - 1912	Fl 1910 - 1912

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