David Clouston
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Dr David Clouston FRSE (13 December 1871–18 April 1948) was a Scottish agriculturalist, horticulturalist and author. He served as Agricultural Advisor to India from 1923 to 1929. His expertise lay especially in the subject of grasses.
Life[]
He was born on Orkney on 13 December 1871.
He studied agriculture to postgraduate level at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his D.Sc. in 1935.[1]
In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers were James Drever, Sir William Wright Smith, Ernest Shearer and Sir Thomas Henry Holland.[2][3]
He died in St Ola on Orkney on 18 April 1948.
Publications[]
See[4]
- Lessons on Indian Agriculture (1920)
- Identification of Grasses in Non-flowering Condition
- Plant Diseases of the Garden (1932)
- From the Orcades to Ind (1936)
- The Establishment and Care of Fine Turf for Lawns and Sports Grounds (1939)
- The Story of the Orkney and Zetland Association (1946)
References[]
- ^ Clouston, David (1935). "The identification of grasses by leaf anatomy". Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
- ^ Nature Magazine: 12 March 1932
- ^ "David Clouston". Amazon. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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