Letters and report to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1818-1820.

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Letters and report to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1818-1820.

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Letter to Roberts Vaux describes experiments with "sulphuret of barytes" and "sulphuret of lime" as manures (1818), Folder 284. Copy of Isaac Chapman's "Some observations on the Hessian fly written in the Year 1797 by Doctor Isaac Chapman. Original read before the Agricultural Society of Bucks County 14th August 1820." This copy was made by Thomas G. Kennedy, secretary of the Agricultural Society of Bucks County and sent to Roberts Vaux. Kennedy also copies Chapman's letter to Kennedy (1820), Folder 32.

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Chapman, Isaac N.

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Resident of Bucks County, Pa. From the description of Account book, 1800-1866. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70965543 ...

Agricultural Society of Bucks County (Pa.).

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Kennedy, Thomas Garrett

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Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836

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Roberts Vaux was treasurer of PMMWD in 1831. From the description of ALS, 1831 October 18 : Philadelphia, Pa. to the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 51617833 Quaker Roberts Vaux was an American juror, philanthropist and abolitionist; he became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819. From the guide to the Address on the impolicy of slavery, 1824, 1824, (American P...