Series of captioned photographs of agricultural features, crops and soil conditions in the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Mauritius, 1946-1947.
Papers of A.G.C. Hill
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Afr. r. 214
- Dates of Creation
- 1946-1947
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 1 box
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
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 botanist in 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, the East African Agricultural Research Station, Amani, Tanganyika Territory, from 1937.
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Note
Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
Other Finding Aids
Listed as no. 812 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Conditions Governing Use
No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.
Accruals
Further photographs of the Amani Research Station in German East Africa, c1916 were donated by Hill to the library in March 1986.