| Description | This folder contains Leonard Elmhirst and J R Currie's correspondence primarily about the Institute of Agrarian Affairs (IAA), and a proposal for the IAA, Institute for Research into Agricultural Economics (IRAE), and a Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau (CAB) abstracting service to be housed in a single building, using a common Library. Correspondents include: E Thomas, Vice-president, International Conference of Agricultural Economists; R Cohen, principal Newnham College; F Sandford, Registrar, Oxford University; F F Hill, The Ford Foundation; L Napolitan, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Food: Dr Perdigao; Dr Frauendorfer; J Thornton, Gulbenkian; S Johnson, United States Department of Agriculture; K Murray; W Ives, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; G Wilson, International Bank; H L Trueman, and G M Carman, Canada Department of Agriculture; J O Jones, IAA; E Thomas, University of Reading; T Scrivenor, H Howard, and E L Hay, CAB; W I Mayers, Cornell University; J J MacGregor, Commonwealth Forestry Institute; T Rayson; and S Morris, University of Exeter;
Subjects include: a pledge by The Elmgrant Trustees and The Dartington Trustees of £2000.00 a year for five years from 1961 to ensure the existence of 3 Magpie Lane (The Oxford Institute of Agrarian Affairs); the Committee on the Provincial Agricultural Economics Service and a Digest of Agricultural Economics; the possibility of J Raeburn taking over at 3 Magpie Lane and Leonard's ten year plan; World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts; a review conference of the CAB; a grant-aiding members of the Provincial Agricultural Economics Service in England, Wales, and Scotland; and enquires into possible buildings.
Records includes: minutes of a meeting about the Bureau of Agricultural Economics; a paper by J R Currie, 'Origin and Steps on the Proposal to form an Abstracting Service for Agricultural Economics'; a memorandum by E Thomas, 'World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts'; a reprinted article by L K Elmhirst, J R Currie, W E Hiley and J J Macgreggor 'Agriculture and Forestry Competition or Coexistence'; particulars of a building, 31 St Giles', Oxford; and a 'Summary Report of the Meetings of the Ad Hoc Groups of Experts on Research in Agricultural Economics'; letter from J J Macgreggor and biographical sketch of John Purdon Maxton (1980) and apparent related papers including 'The work of the Oxford University Institute of Agrarian Affairs'.. |