David Clouston
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.
Biography
[edit]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, aged 76.
Publications
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- 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
[edit]- ^ Clouston, David (1935). "The identification of grasses by leaf anatomy".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ^ Nature Magazine: 12 March 1932
- ^ "David Clouston". Amazon. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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