Letter, regarding a proposal to make Scotland wealthy through improvements in agriculture by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/10iii/46
Date: 1730
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Letter by an unknown author to an unknown recipient regarding proposals to increase Scotland's wealth through improvements in agriculture, including improvements to practices in enclosing, planting, and summer fallowing. The letter requests the endorsement and promotion by the Royal Society of the suggested improvements. Manuscript annotation on last page states: 'Not to be entered'.
Subject: Agriculture
Read to the Royal Society on 9 April 1730.
- Reference number
- CLP/10iii/46
- Earliest possible date
- 1730
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Letter, regarding a proposal to make Scotland wealthy through improvements in agriculture by unknown author, 1730, CLP/10iii/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_46/letter-regarding-a-proposal-to-make-scotland-wealthy-through-improvements-in-agriculture-by-unknown-author, accessed on 17 May 2025
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