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Authorised form of nameWarington; Robert (1838 - 1907)
Dates1838 - 1907
NationalityBritish
Place of birth22 Princes Street, Spitalfields, London, England
Date of birth22 August 1838
Place of deathHarpenden, Hertfordshire
Date of death20/03/1907
Research fieldAgricultural chemistry
ActivityCareer:
Unpaid Assistant, Rothamsted Laboratory; Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (1862-1867); staff, Lawes manure and citric acid works, at Barking and Millwall (1867-1876); Staff, Rothamsted (1876-1890); studied nitrification of soil; Sibthorpian Professor of Agriculture, Oxford University (1894-1897)
Memberships:
FCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1886
RelationshipsSon of Robert Warington (FRS 1864)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1908 vol 80 pp xv-xxiv signed by P S U P
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/49584889
CodeNA2980
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1886/15Warington, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/004795Warington, Robertnd
NLB/35/455Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to M P Monnot, Secretaire de la Redaction, "Larousse Mensuel", 17 Rye Montparnasse, Paris3 June 1907
NLB/4/991Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1890
NLB/4/1015Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1890
NLB/6/165Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Richard Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1892
NLB/7/793Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1893
RR/16/282Referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper 'A study of the process of nitrification with reference to the purification of sewage' by Miss Harriette Chick6 May 1905
RR/16/318Referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper 'The effect of plant growth & of manures upon the soil: the retention of bases by the soil' by A D Hall and N H J Miller28 April 1905
NLB/22/279Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Robert] Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society3 April 1901
NLB/18/661Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to R Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society17 April 1899
NLB/20/434Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1900
NLB/27/325Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society, High Bank, Harpenden, Hertfordshire8 August 1903
NLB/27/306Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society4 August 1901
NLB/27/342Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society13 August 1903
NLB/26/841Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1903
NLB/27/845Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society9 December 1903
NLB/31/79Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Robert Warington, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1905
RR/14/27Referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper '“Nitragin” and the nodules of leguminous plants' by Maria Dawson8 December 1898
RR/14/135Referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper 'Further observations on the nature and functions of the nodules of leguminous plants' by Maria Dawson6 January 1900
RR/14/138Second referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper 'Further observations on the nature and functions of the nodules of leguminous plants' by Maria Dawson27 April 1900
RR/10/341Referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper 'The nitrifying process and its specific ferment.—Part I' by Percy Faraday Frankland and Grace C Frankland19 April 1890
NLB/19/792Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott, Chairman of the Botany Sectional Committee20 December 1899
RR/12/272Referee's report by Robert Warington, on two papers 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration.—No. I. On a new method for investigating the carbonic acid exchanges of plants' and 'Experimental researches on vegetable assimilation and respiration.—No. II. On the paths of gaseous exchange between aerial leaves and the atmosphere' by Frederick Frost Blackman1 January 1895
RR/14/32Second referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper '“Nitragin” and the nodules of leguminous plants' by Maria Dawson21 April 1899
RR/14/136Detailed referee's report by Robert Warington, on a paper 'Further observations on the nature and functions of the nodules of leguminous plants' by Maria Dawson6 January 1900
MC/15/113Letter from [Robert] Warington, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, to the Secretary of the Royal Society22 November 1890
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
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