| Description | Correspondence includes that between Professor G W Robinson of University College of North Wales, Bangor and William K Slater, and with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and refers to negotiations with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Land Fertility Committee in providing grants towards the use of the laboratory and staff for work in connection with soil analysis. Correspondence is also between J B E Patterson and William K Slater at the Agricultural Improvement Council, London. In the 1960s it is between J B E Patterson at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Cambridge, and Robin Johnson and L K Elmhirst, with particular reference to the soil survey map of the estate. There are also papers relating to expenditure; apparatus; reconnaissance survey of Plymouth; and a soil survey report. |