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See also:LAWES, See also:SIR See also:JOHN BENNET, See also:BART . (1814-1900), See also:English agriculturist, was See also:born at Rothamsted on the 28th of See also:December 1814. Even before leaving See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he matriculated in 1832, he had begun to See also:interest himself in growing various medicinal See also:plants on the Rothamsted estates, which he inherited on his See also:father's See also:death in 1822. About 1837 he began to experiment on the effects of various See also:manures on plants growing in pots, and a See also:year or two later the experiments were extended to crops in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field. One immediate consequence was that in 1842 he patented a manure formed by treating See also:phosphates with sulphuric See also:acid, and thus initiated the artificial manure See also:industry. In the succeeding year he enlisted the services of Sir J. H. See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert, with whom he carried on for more than See also:half a See also:century those experiments in raising crops and feeding animals which have rendered Rothamsted famous in the eyes of scientific agriculturists all over the See also:world (see See also:AGRICULTURE). In 1854 he was elected a See also:Fellow of the Royal Society, which in 1867 bestowed a Royal See also:medal on Lawes and Gilbert jointly, and in 1882 he was created a See also:baronet. In the year before his death,which happened on the 31St of See also:August Igoo, he took See also:measures to ensure the continued existence of the Rothamsted experimental See also:farm by setting aside £See also:Ioo,000 for that purpose and constituting the Lawes Agricultural See also:Trust, composed of four members from the Royal Society, two from the Royal Agri-cultural Society, one each from the Chemical and Linnaean See also:Societies, and the owner of Rothamsted See also:mansion-See also:house for the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time being.
End of Article: LAWES, SIR JOHN BENNET, BART
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