David Clouston FRSE (13 December 1871 – 18 April 1948) was a Scottish agriculturalist, horticulturalist and author. He served as Agricultural Advisor to India from 1923 to 1929. His expertise lay especially in the subject of grasses.
Biography
He was born on Orkney on 13 December 1871.
He studied agriculture to postgraduate level at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his D.Sc. in 1935.
In 1932, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers were James Drever, Sir William Wright Smith, Ernest Shearer and Sir Thomas Henry Holland.
He died in St Ola on Orkney on 18 April 1948, aged 76.
Publications
See
- Lessons on Indian Agriculture (1920)
- Identification of Grasses in Non-flowering Condition
- Plant Diseases of the Garden (1932)
- From the Orcades to Ind (1936)
- The Establishment and Care of Fine Turf for Lawns and Sports Grounds (1939)
- The Story of the Orkney and Zetland Association (1946)
References
- Clouston, David (1935). "The identification of grasses by leaf anatomy".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- Nature Magazine: 12 March 1932
- "David Clouston". Amazon. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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