Papers of A.G.C. Hill

Series of captioned photographs of agricultural features, crops and soilconditions in the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Mauritius, 1946-1947.

Alexander George Glendon Hill (fl 1900-1986) was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.In 1923 he took the post of Superintendent of Agriculture, Nigeria, then botanistin 1926. He was made Senior Geneticist, Sugarcane Research Station,Mauritius in 1929, and in 1930 was sent to Java to study cane breeding methods.He was Acting Director of Agriculture, Mauritius, 1930-1932 and Director, theEast African Agricultural Research Station, Amani, Tanganyika Territory, from1937.

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Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Listed as no. 812 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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Further photographs of the Amani Research Station in German East Africa, c1916were donated by Hill to the library in March 1986.