Record

RefNoCLP/10iii/46
LevelItem
TitleLetter, regarding a proposal to make Scotland wealthy through improvements in agriculture by unknown author
Date[1730]
DescriptionLetter 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.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
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