Details - Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, or, An account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses, &c. &c. used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals, instituted by John Duke of Bedford, illustrated with forty-five coloured plates

Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, or, An account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses, &c. &c. used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals, instituted by John Duke of Bedford, illustrated with fo

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Alternative: Account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses, &c. &c. used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals, instituted by the Duke of Bedford
Alternative: Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis

By

Sinclair, George, 1786-1834

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Book

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Published material

Publication info

London, Ridgways, [18--]

Edition

4th ed., to which is (for the first time) added The weeds of agriculture, the whole revised and improved.

Notes

Sinclair's work at Woburn Abbey represents arguably the first ecological experiment. This is thought to be the grass experiment referred to in Darwin's Origin of Species (1859).