Elements of agricultural chemistry, in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture / By Sir Humphry Davy.

  • Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Elements of agricultural chemistry, in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture / By Sir Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    references to such doctrines as are become current, the authors of which are well known; and which may be almost consi- dered as the property of all enlightened minds. Amongst books to which I have not referred for any particular facts, but which contain much useful general information, I shall mention the Earl of Dundonald’s Treatise on the connection of Chemistry with Agriculture; Mr. Rennie’s Dissertations on Peat; and the General Report of the Agriculture of Scotland. This last work did not come into my hands till the concluding sheets of these Lectures were printing. Had it been in circulation before, I should have profited by many statements given in it, particularly those of the opinions of the enlightened Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh; and I should have dwelt with satisfaction on the importance given to some chemical doctrines by his experience. Berkeley Square, March «1, 1813.