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Title: Botany and Agriculture
Identifier(s): text:334070
Description: Notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris by Robert Maskell Patterson as a student at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, France.
Creator: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854et al
Subject: Botany; Agriculture; Natural history
Date: 2022

Title: Madison, James to Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1826 December 26; No. 867 James Madison to Dr. Thomas Cooper
Identifier(s): text:353710
Description: Acknowledges receipt of copies of Cooper's lectures on political economy and also his lectures on civil government and on the United States Constitution and clarifies the use of the word "national" as distinguished from the word "federal" in the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention; discusses the size and productivity of ancient Roman farms.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Constitutional conventions; Agriculture, Ancient--Rome
Date: 1826-12-26; 2023

Title: Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, March 1, 1812.
Identifier(s): APSimg7943; APSimg7943
Description: David Library Item Number: 1923; Description from Guide to the Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution.
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327);
Subject: Early American history; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Agriculture
Date: 1812 March 1

Title: The Future of Food. Part IV: Climate Justice and Food Security
Identifier(s): video:1124; 2011_11_016
Description: President Robinson gives an impassioned talk on the future of food justice and climate change. She links gender justice with those issues and challenges the US to join the rest of the world in finding solutions.; Further reading: http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=239670
Subject: Food insecurity; Agriculture; Population, Growth; Climate change; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2011-11-19

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Current Issues in Agriculture. Part I: Beating Malthus: The Green Revolution.
Identifier(s): video:420; 2004_11_014
Description: Dr. Evenson presents his talk on the use of conventional breeding techniques to produce food in "developing" countries, dubbed the Green Revolution.
Subject: History of Science; Agriculture, History, 20th century; Agricultural innovations; Food supply; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-13

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Current Issues in Agriculture. Part IV: Scientific and Technical Constraints on Agricultural Production: Prospects for the Future.
Identifier(s): video:434; 2004_11_017
Description: Dr. Ruttan talks about how advances in agriculture have affected the world, from feeding more peope to water scarcity.
Subject: History of Science; Agricultural innovations; Agriculture, History, 20th century; Water scarcity; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-13

Title: The Future of Food: Part III: Achieving Food Security and Sustainability for Nine Billion
Identifier(s): video:1123; 2011_11_015
Description: Christopher Leaver presents a talk describing how agriculture sustainability is important for the future of feeding a growing global population.
Subject: History of Science; Food insecurity; Agriculture; Population, Growth; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2011-11-19

Title: Meteorological Journal, volumes 1 & 2, 1784-1793
Identifier(s): compound:68
Description: These two volumes record the daily weather and other data at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. In addition to the meteorological data, there are occasionally other notes pertaining to gardening and harvesting. These annotations often note the plants they have and where they were on the grounds.
Subject: Agriculture; Birds -- Migration -- United States.; Meteorology -- Observations.; Meteorology -- Observations.; Science and technology

Title: Maury, Rev. James to Moses Fontaine, 1795 June 11; No. 921 Rev. James Maury to Moses Fontaine
Identifier(s): text:353623
Description: Discusses various types of eyeglasses; discusses his own manuscript regarding measures "for our Security against the French Intrigues & Encroachments in America"; comments on the favorable state of affairs in the war with France and on the prospect of peace; informs him about family matters, mentions smallpox, and remarks that a measles epidemic is "retarding our plantation Business so much at a critical Season of the Year, that our Crops & Harvest is likely to Suffer by it."
Creator: Maury, James, 1746-1840et al
Subject: Eyeglasses; United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763; Smallpox; Measles; Agriculture
Date: 1759-06-11; 2023

Title: Meteorological observations, 1798-1802
Identifier(s): text:319010
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al; Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849et al
Subject: Meteorology; Meteorology--Observations; Weather; Citizen Science; Climatology; Birds -- Migration -- United States.; Natural history; Science and technology; Agriculture
Date: 1836-1858; 2021

Title: U. S. Department of Agriculture - Correspondence, 1934-1943
Identifier(s): text:274548
Subject: Baker, O. E. (Oliver Edwin), 1883-1949; Doyle, C. B. (Conrad Bartling), 1884-1973; Economic geography; Agriculture
Date: 1934-1943

Title: Fred D. Richey - Correspondence, 1923-1933
Identifier(s): text:190858
Source: Milislav Demerec Papers (Mss.B.D394); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D394-ead.xml
Subject: Demerec, M. (Milislav), 1895-1966; United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Bureau of Plant Industry; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Corn; Genetics, genomics and breeding of crop plants
Date: 1923-1933

Title: Robertson
Identifier(s): audio:2981; APSdigrec_0551; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Narrative about a white man named Robertson who lived in the Nemaiah Valley, British Columbia. Includes conversation in English.; Recorded as part of research funded by an APS Phillips Fund grant.
Source: Dinwoodie, David. Verbs of Saying in Chilcotin Historical Narratives, 1992. (Mss.Rec.257);
Subject: Athapascan languages; Chilcotin language; Chilcotin Indians--History; Chilcotin Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--British Columbia; Agriculture--British Columbia
Date: 1992-10-03

Title: Conversation on consultant's childhood and Shawnee customs
Identifier(s): audio:6528; APSdigrec_3204; Recording Number: 11B; Program Number: 01
Description: Includes discussion of the Shawnee Indian Agency, economic and agricultural conditions during the Depression, memories of farming and hunting during childhood, traditional medicine, and traditional roles for men and women. In English only.
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--History--20th century; Shawnee Indians--Medicine; Shawnee Indians--Agriculture; Shawnee Indians--Social life and customs; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shawnee Agency; Depressions--1929--Oklahoma; Shawnee women--Social conditions
Date: 1994