Papers of A.G.C. Hill

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MSS. Afr. r. 214

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Series of captioned photographs of agricultural features, crops and soil conditions in the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Mauritius and of the Amani Research Institute.

File 1: the Gold Coast, 1946-1947
File 2: Sierra Leone, 1945-1947
File 3: Kenya, 1947
File 4: Mauritius, 1947
File 5: Amani Research Institute in German East Africa (later Tanzania) before World War I (c.1910-1914)

Dates

Creation: c.1910-1914 and 1945-1947

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Afr. r. 214, file 1].

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Shelfmark:

MSS. Afr. r. 214

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 2369

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

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.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 812 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Files 1-4 were transferred to the library in March 1984 as part of a larger donation by Hill originally including some printed material. File 5 was donated by Hill in March 1986.