| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the British Grassland Society including a proposal to form a British Grassland Society and draft constitution, minutes and papers from annual meetings. Includes a paper by J R Currie, 'The Economics of Ley Farming', and a press cutting.
Records cover: Grassland Conferences including programmes; visits to the Grassland Improvement Station, Colesbourn, and South Leicestershire including programmes; the fifth International Grasslands Congress in the Netherlands; a joint meeting with the British Society of Animal Production; the Journal of the British Grassland Society; programmes for meetings; papers for discussion; finance; appointments and membership.
Correspondents include: J R Currie; R Whyte, secretary; W Davies, Grassland Improvement Station; J Symington, The Agricultural Institute and Experimental Station, Holland; Leicestershire War Agricultural Executive Committee; F Horne, National Institute of Agricultural Botany; James B E Patterson; H Humphreys; Dr H Moore, Leeds University; R Trow-Smith, Editorial Department; A Ashby, and R Dixey, University of Oxford; and H Edmunds, County of Pembroke Agricultural Executive Committee. |