Letter, from Mackintosh to Thomas Rudiman, dated at Edinburgh

Reference number: EL/M3/57

Date: 10 February 1730

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Discussing summer fallows in England which began in Roman times - wonders whether it continued through the centuries
Read to the Royal Society on 9 April 1730

An attached note reads: 'An essay on ways and means for inclosing fallowing planting Scotland and that in sixteen years at furthest by a Lover of his Country Brigad. Mackintosh Edinburgh 1729'

Reference number: EL/M3/57
Earliest possible date: 10 February 1730
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Letter, from Mackintosh to Thomas Rudiman, dated at Edinburgh, 10 February 1730, EL/M3/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m3_57/letter-from-mackintosh-to-thomas-rudiman-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 15 September 2026

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters M3
1719 - 1853 Reference number: EL/M3

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