Herbert Henry Cousins

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Herbert Henry Cousins (* 1869 , † 1949 in Oxford ) was a British agrochemist .

Herbert Henry Cousins ​​studied chemistry at the universities of Oxford and Heidelberg and then returned to Oxford. He became a demonstrator in the chemical laboratory and lecturer at the University of Oxford . In 1894 he went to the College of Agriculture in Wye in the county of Kent . He became an island chemist in Jamaica in 1900 and returned to serve as director of the Department of Agriculture from 1908 to 1932. He died in Oxford in 1949.

Publications

  • HH Cousins: The Chemistry of the Garden. A primer for amateurs and young gardeners , 1898
  • HH Cousins: History of Hope Farm, and Part 1 of the Jamaica Herd Book of Pure Bred Cattle , 1933
  • ET von Wolf, HH Cousins: Farm Foods: Or, the Rational Feeding of Farm Animals , 1895

literature

  • Cousins, Herbert Henry in Ilse Jahn : History of Biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies. Nikol VG Spectrum, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 3-937872-01-9
  • Obituary in: Nature 1950 , 165 , 97-98.
personal data
SURNAME Cousins, Herbert Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British agrochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
DATE OF DEATH 1949
Place of death Oxford