Marginal sketch
Date
20 March 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 315mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
Miscellaneous drawings at the end of the minutes of a meeting of a committee appointed 'to consider of Mr Buckland's proposition to plant potatoes through all the parts of England'. The early Fellows of the Royal Society, lead by Buckland, were interested in how potatoes might be cultivated and grown to counteract famine.
Associated place