Agriculture, Department of

Description

BOX 1: ACADEMIC PLANNING


1. General, 1950s - 70s.


2. Bosanquet Committee on Demand for Agricultural Graduates, 1962-66.


3. Luxmoore Committee on Agricultural Education, 1939-44.


4. Robbins Report, 1963-64.


5. U.G.C.:

Visit, 1946; Departmental research interests, 1947

Correspondence, 1947-55

Quinquennium, 1954-56, incl. ‘Plans for Agriculture in the Quinquenium, 1957-62’

Visit, 1961 (papers 1959-62)

Visit, (Main Committee), 1966 (papers 1965-66)


BOX 2: ACADEMIC PLANNING (continued)


6. U.G.C.:

Correspondence, quinquenium and visit (Agriculture Sub-Committee), 1966


BOX 3: ACCOMMODATION


1. General, 1948-58; 1953-72.


2. Minor improvements, 1960-67.


3. University Development Plan, 1953-64.


4. Analytical laboratory, 1951-53.


5. Animal House on roof, 1957-67.


6. Bacteriological laboratory, 1947-48.


7. Poultry Shed, 1952; Boiler Room, 1950.


8. Ridgeway, 1946-48.


9. Rifle Range, 1951-66.


10. 40, University Road, 1949-52.


11. Miscellaneous [use of electricity, parking, etc.].


APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT (INCL. COMPUTING DEVELOPMENTS)


1. Audio-visual teaching aids, 1961-69.


2. Computing developments, 1955; 1958-73.


3. Veterinary equipment, 1951.


4. Miscellaneous, c.1947-53.


BOX 4: ADVISORY SERVICES AND AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS


1. Agricultural education: County courses, etc., 1941-47.


2. National Milk Testing and Advisory Scheme, 1944-46; Courses and classes, 1942-46.


3. Provincial advisory economists, 1945-49.


4. National Agricultural Advisory Service (N.A.A.S.) and provincial advisory economists, 1945.


5. National Agricultural Advisory Service, 1951-57.


6. Provincial Advisory Economists Scheme (P.A.E.S.) and teaching of agricultural economics, 1950-69.


7. Farm management survey, 1957-67.


8. Agricultural Economics: Seminar, 1949-52.


BOX 5: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY


1. Annual Reports, 1940-45; 1961/62 - 1969/70.


2. Bacteriological Service, [n.d.].


3. Board of Studies, School of Agricultural Sciences: Agenda and papers, 1968.


4. Calendar Entries, 1971.


5. Committee on Dept. of Agriculture/School of Agricultural Sciences: Agenda, Minutes and papers, 1960-63, 1966-68; correspondence, 1970.


6. Executive Committee, 1967-71.





BOX 6: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY (continued)


7. History (1 folder):

N.M. Comber, ‘The Development of Agricultural Education in Yorkshire’, Journal of Royal Agricultural Society of England, 96 (1935), 109-123 [offprint] 2 copies.

N.M. Comber, ‘In the Beginning: the Department of Agriculture of Leeds University’, Agricultural Progress, XXIV, 1 (1949), 7-13 [typescript] 2 copies.

N.M. Comber, ‘Agricultural Education and Research in Yorkshire’, [typescript] [n.d.].

Correspondence re: history, 1950-53.


8. Loveday Committee on Higher Agriculural Education, 1940-47 [incl. purchase of farm].


9. Poultry Section, Origins: papers, plans, 1920s-30s.


10. Research Developments:

Cattle Husbandry, 1960

Interdepartmental: Medical/Dental, 1969-72; Mechanical Engineering, 1966; Nuclear Science, 1959-62.

Veterinary Reseach Centre for the North: proposals, 1949.


11. Staff Meetings: Minutes and papers, 1954-65, 1969-71; Agricultural Division: Agenda, Minutes and papers, 1967-71.


12. Technical Assistance Sub-Committee, 1964-65.


BOX 7: COURSES


1. General, 1942-72.


2. Individual:

Agricultural Sciences, Re-introduction of the Hons. Course in, 1953-54.


Agriculture and Agriculture with Hons., 1956-66.


Agriculture with Hons., Degree of B.Sc. in, 1952-57.


Agriculture Introductory, formerly Principles of Agriculture: Revision of Course, Introduction of Options in Third Year, 1956-66.


Agricultural Bacteriology, 1953-61.


Agricultural Botany, 1961-65.


Agricultural Chemistry, 1962/Hons. Course in Animal Husbandry, 1954-56.


Agricultural Economics, 1954-58; 1968; B.Com. Degree in, 1958-63.


Agricultural Zoology, 1961.


Poultry Husbandry, 1951-60.


3. Special:

Lab. Assistants: General, 1965-66; Refresher Course, 1950.


Refresher and Vacation, 1950-68.


Special Courses Division [Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies], 1956-70.


Special Courses [other departments], 1953-65.


BOX 8: COURSES (continued)


4. Postgraduate Matters, 1950-60.


5. Tutorial Scheme, 1954-71.


6. Works Experience (Farm Work and Visits), 1947-70.


EXAMINATIONS


1. General, 1934; 1942; 1946; 1959; 1961; 1966.


2. D.Sc. Applications, 1946.


3. Internal Examiners’ Meetings: Minutes and Correspondence, 1954-74.


4. Pass Lists, 1949.


BOX 9: EXTERNAL


1. External Examiners, 1946-69.


2. British Association, Leeds Meeting, 1967.


3. Committee of Enquiry into Statutory Smallholdings, 1963-64.


4. Committee on Social Studies, 1964: Submission.


5. National Education Week, 11-16 November 1963.


6. Overseas Universities, 1966-73.


7. University of Leeds: Open Days, 1951.


8. Farming Conference, Bodington Hall, 16 April 1968.


9. Leeds Naturalists’ Club and City of Leeds Parks Dept.: Proposals for a botanic garden at Golden Acre Park, 1955-56.


10. Yorkshire Agricultural Adventurers, 1954-57.


11. Yorkshire Agricultural Society, 1964, 1966. [Approach for financial assistance.]


12. Yorkshire and Humberside Economic Planning Council, 1965-67.


FINANCE


1. West Riding C.C. Grant: Effect of Withdrawal, 1941 - c.1942. (2 files)


2. Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education [finance, staffing etc.], Dec. 1945-Dec. 1947.


3. Agricultural Research Council, 1961.


4. Departmental: Apparatus, Research, Maintenance, 1956/57 - 1966.


LIBRARY


1. Departmental Library, 1943-58.


BOX 10: STAFF


1. General: correspondence, 1943-57 (incl. plates from photographs removed from frames).


2. Chairs:

Agricultural Chemistry, 1962-64.

Agricultural Botany and Zoology, 1969-71.

Agricultural Economics, 1968-69.

Lectureship in Agricultural Economics, 1948.


3. Five-Day Week, movement towards, 1959-62.


4. Laboratory People: general correspondence, 1919-44.


5. List of Staff, 1892/93 - 1948/49.


6. Nuclear Testing Ban Appeal, 1957.


7. Personalia: Prof. N.M. Comber, 1946-1949/50; Prof. T.L. Bywater, 1970; Mr. Harwood Long, 1967.


8. Safety: Radiation Protection, 1960-67.


9. Salaries, 1948-68.


10. Staff House, Membership, 1943-45.


11. Veterinary Investigation Officer, 1937-43.


12. Agricultural Zoology, 1950-51; 1954-61.


BOX 11: STUDENTS


1. Applications and Admissions, 1944-63.


2. Appointments:

Appointments Board, 1950s-60s.

Employment opportunities (sample papers), 1940s - 50s.

Occupations: papers, 1912-55.

slips: Record of Students in alphabetical order [1947-62].

slips: Occupations of Students, [1947-63].


3. Awards, Prizes and Scholarships:

General, 1946-72.

A.R.C. Postgraduate Awards, 1957; 1963.

Colonial Agricultural Scholarships, 1939-47.

Comber Prize, 1954-74.

Crabtree Prize, 1972-74.

Lancaster Schools, 1956-57.

Postgraduate Scholarships, 1956; 1961-69.

Seton Prize, 1934-77, incl. Book Award Scheme.

Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Silver Medal, 1948-74.

Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Travelling Fellowship, 1951-59.


BOX 12: STUDENTS (continued)


4. Lists of Students, 1937-47.


5. L.U.U. Agricultural Society, papers, 1939-47; 1953-72.


BOX 13: STUDENTS (continued) incl. L.U.U. Agricultural Society papers (cont’d. from previous box):


6. A.G.M. Papers, 1945-60; General and Ordinary Meetings minute book, 1948-49.


7. Annual Ball, pre-1953-67: papers, tickets, etc.


8. Annual Dinner: Menu cards, 1911, 1913, 1925, 1927, 1934, 1935, 1951, 1953, 1955; loose leaves [n.d.].


9. Annual Reunion and Dinner: notification, 1965, 1967, 1969.

menu cards, 1964, 1971.


10. Membership cards, with programme of events: 1945/46; 1962/3-1972/73.


11. Register of Life Members: first compiled, 1953.


[See also Leeds University Union records: Organisations, Clubs, Societies - Agricultural Society]


12. Theses Submitted, 1960-67.


13. Wartime: correspondence with students in H.M. Forces, 1941-46.


BOX 14: UNIVERSITY FARMS


1. University farms: Policy, 1957-69, incl. University Farms Policy Committee and Research Advisory Committees.


2. Farms Management and Farms Inspection Committess, 1957-60.


3. Professor Bywater’s notes on interviews with Mr. Barrowman, [farm director], about farm staff, units, etc., 1954-56.


4. N.I.A.B.: Experimental Work, 1956-58; 1962-66


BOX 15: UNIVERSITY FARMS (continued)


1. Manor Farm, Garforth: Diary, 1919. Signed N.M Comber.


2. Askham Bryan: Policy and finance, 1931-38. [Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education and County Councils.]


3. Askham Bryan: Buildings, 1927-31; also Plans.


BOX 16: UNIVERSITY FARMS (continued)


1. Headley Hall Farm: [Description.], c.1961.


2. Headley Hall Farm: Electricity substation, 1949-67.


3. Headley Hall Farm: Improvement of Tadcaster trunk road and A1 at Headley Bar, 1954-67.


3a [Headley Hall Farm] Leeds University Farms Ltd: Annual report 1999 and correspondence re Protesters’ attack on farm 1998 and 2002 (received from Press Office July 2009)


4. Spen Farm: General, Jan. - Dec. 1964 [incl. slaughterhouse].


5. Spen Farm: New Piggery, 1961-63.


6. Spen Farm: Piggery; staffing; use of farm for research, 1950-62.


7. Wise Warren Farm: 1950-70.


BOX 17: WAR, WW1 AND WW2


1. Reservation of staff, 1939-47. (2 bundles of papers)


2. Reservation of staff and deferment of National Service, 1939-49; 1940-43.


3. Secondment of members of staff to War Agricultural Executive Committees, May 1940-Oct. 1946.


4. Applications for Class “B” Release, 1945-47.


5. Ministry of Labour and National Service: Central (Technical and Scientific) Register. April - May 1943.


6. Waste material from industrial processes with a possible agricultural value, July 1940-Oct. 1943.


7. Wartime: miscellaneous, 1939/40 - 1947.


8. ‘Suggestions for the Management of the Garden, and the Allotment, and of Poultry, in the Present Emergency’, 19th August 1914


Agricultural War Memorial 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 – located on shelf W/980

The memorial was unveiled in the 'new' building, now occupied by Geography. The plaque was unveiled on 23rd June 1932 by Major J. Dent, Chairman of the Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education and Alderman of the West Riding County Council. A supplementary list of names was added after the 1939-45 war.


BOX 18: POST-WAR


1. Deferment of National Service, 1947-53.


2. Post-war developments, 1944-Jan. 1949. Including report on Post War developments, 1945.


3. Ex-servicemen: admissions; refresher courses; research.


4. Visit to Rhine Army School of Agriculture, 1949. (Mr. R. Holliday.)


MISCELLANEOUS


1. Index to filing cabinets, Record books; Record of transferred papers.


2. Lists of Publications: List of Bulletins; List of reports on agricultural economics; Animal Production Division: List of papers.


3. University Press: April - May 1954.


BOX 19: PUBLICATIONS


Bulletin (1898-1948) Nos. 1-100


BOX 20: PUBLICATIONS (continued)


Bulletin (1898-1948) Nos. 101-211 (Nos. 1-173 bound)


BOX 21: PUBLICATIONS (continued)


Inaugural Lectures:

J.A.F. Rook. ‘The Cow and the Chemist’

J.H. Western. ‘Plant Pathology’

T.L. Bywater. ‘Problems in Breeding Farm Livestock’

Research in Progress 1964/65-1968/69

Prospectus 1894/95-1966/67

Publications (General):

Broad Acres. The Journal of Agricultural Education In Yorkshire 1935-39

The Farriers Annual 1910-11

Farmers Report Nos. 27, 60, 142-43, 171, 178, 180, 183 (1938/9, 1945, 1959, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972)

The Garforth Experiments Season 1899.

A.J. Wynne, EM. Wright. ‘Milk Production in Yorkshire 1960-61’, April 1962.

N.B. Lilwall. ‘Economic Aspects of Sheep Production in Two Areas of Yorkshire’ Sept. 1967.

A.J. Wynne. ‘Some Problems in the Economics of Milk Transport.’ June 1969

Morag C. Simpson. ‘Marketing Potatoes in Leeds.’ Nov. 1968.

Richard A. Giles. ‘Forced Rhubarb in the West Riding of Yorkshire’. Aug.1970

E. Dawson. ‘Potato Production in Yorkshire’. June 1967

Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Economics and Leeds University, Handbook for the Year 1931/32

N.M. Comber. ‘The Revision of the Scheme of Agricultural Education as it Affects Research and University Teaching.’ Agricultural Progress vol. XII. 1933-35.

MAFF. ‘Guide to Grassland Demonstrations in Yorkshire Conducted by Leeds University and the Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education.’ 1921.


BOX 22: PUBLICATIONS (continued)

Agricultural Sciences Centenary

1) Centenary Lecture. Feb. 9th, 1993. ‘Environmental Land Management. The National Trust’s Experience’ by Lord Chorley. Also Attendance Lists etc.

2) Alumni Re-union. 16th-18th April 1993. Programme, Menu, Attendance Lists etc.


BOX 23: PUBLICATIONS (continued)

Clive Behrens Lectures 1939 - to date. Assorted Correspondence, Copies of Lectures etc. Photographs of Lecturers.


CORRESPONDENCE: GREEN COPIES


University of Leeds and Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education certificates (oversize item)


Confidential, 1943-49 (1 folder); 1946-48, misc. 1950s & 1960s (another folder).

Feb.1960 - 15 Dec. 1960. [Bound]

16 Dec. 1960 - 4 Dec. 1961. [Bound]

5 Dec. 1961 - 28 Dec. 1962. [Bound]

29 Dec. 1962-18 Nov. 1963. [Bound]


NEWSCUTTINGS


[Shelved within NEWSCUTTINGS sequence]


BOX 1: Dec. 1923 - Jan. 1929 (Bound volumes numbered [no.1] - 16). Relating to Agriculture, except volume marked ‘Jubilee 1924’.


BOX 2: Feb. 1929 - Sept. 1932. (Bound volumes numbered 17-33. Also loose folder of misc. cuttings, c. 1942-67. Relating to Agriculture.

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