| Description | Subjects covered on printed papers include soil classification and utilisation in New Jersey and South East England. There is a transcript of a talk by Patterson on 'The Work of the Agricultural Chemist with Special Relation to Crop Production'; papers and minutes of meetings of the Soils Correlation Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Board of Agriculture for Scotland; reports on the soils of South Devon; soil analysis of fields on the estate; a description of various loams; a reconnaissance survey of the soils round Plymouth; and papers on soils on the Surveyors' Meeting Area and on soil series, and explanatory papers on soil survey work. The material also includes the programme of a meeting at the Hall; correspondence with Professor G W Robinson of the University College of North Wales; and with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, including with Patterson in his later post as Regional Advisory Soil Chemist. |