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- JOHNSTON, James F W What can be done for English agriculture? A letter to the most noble the Marquis of Northampton ... President of the Royal Society. Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1842 8vo, 39 + (1)pp, recently well bound in cloth, spine lettered, uncut. A very good copy. First edition: scarce. Goldsmiths 32610. Perkins 904. Black 5485 (Royal Dublin Soc. only). COPAC/NSTC find copies at Goldsmiths + Glasgow + Bristol + Harvard. James Finlay Weir Johnston [1796-1855], reader in chemistry and mineralogy at Durham University, was the expert author of several papers on agricultural chemistry. In the present essay he makes a reasoned case for the education of the English farmer by the establishment of an agricultural school, the wider application of science to agriculture and the greater role of county agricultural associations. Price - £85 |
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