Volume 1
Container
Call Number: MS E234
Contains 14 Results:
Ship-building and timber-growing, Saxons to Charles II
File — Volume: 1, Page: 1-5
Attempts to raise oak timber in Forest of Dean and New Forest, Charles II and William III
File — Volume: 1, Page: 5-9
Commission to enquire into the state of the woods, forests, and revenues of the Crown, 1787
File — Volume: 1, Page: 13-15
Glenbervie appointed Surveyor-General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases; new Acts, 1803-1806, 1807-1810
File — Volume: 1, Page: 15-18
Dates:
1803-1806, 1807-1810
Glenbervie made first Commissioner of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, 1810-1814
File — Volume: 1, Page: 18-19
Dates:
1810-1814
1808 meetings of the Commission
File — Volume: 1, Page: 20-42
Scope and Contents
Report from Glenbervie quoted, concerning a questionnaire that he had circulated on the management of timber.Pages 21-24: ...the method of raising timber in the new enclosures in the New Forest. Pages 24-26: Neglect of ship-timber in our time; remedies. Pages 26-29: Asking Mr Wickens (a Commissioner and a professional) to prepare methods of planting oak, based on the questionnaire, with help of Mortimer. Pages 30-32: Queries for Wickens to consider concerning techniques. Pages...
Messrs Drivers, nurserymen, of the Kent Road, chosen to do the planting in the New Forest; experiments
File — Volume: 1, Page: 43-45
Histories of the other royal forests which could serve as nurseries of naval timber; present state of Bere, Parkhurst, Holt, Woolmer, Delamere, Windsor, Whichwood; experiments and plans
File — Volume: 1, Page: 45-54
Other sources of ship-timber: purchases in G's time and reservations
File — Volume: 1, Page: 54-57
Amount of acres thus appropriated
File — Volume: 1, Page: 57-58
Detailed account of the Drivers' experiment in the Hampshire forests and the Forests of Dean
File — Volume: 1, Page: 58-132
Scope and Contents
Also Wickens' and Stewart's investigation into Drivers' failures.
Pages 60-65: Letter from Glenbervie to Commisioner Rose concerning the unfavorable report by Wickens, November 8, 1810. Pages 66-69: Meeting of the Commissioners for the Enclosure in the New Forest, G proposes Drivers' contract be continued under a superintendent; same in Dean Forest; alterations in procedures. March 16, 1811. Pages 69-132: Objections to Driver's techniques; G's answers with case-studeis. Staffing problems:...
Glenbervie retires in 1814. In summer 1819 he tours the royal forests
File — Volume: 1, Page: 132-134
Report by Glenbervie to Commissioner Wm Huskisson on the state of the forests; end papers, August 27, 1819
File — Volume: 1, Page: 134-203 and end papers
Scope and Contents
Includes attack on J.H. Martyn's edition of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, and quote from Quarterly Review 1813.Pages 134-147: Probable future produce. Pages 147-165: Points of management: rabbits, hares, mice, woodmen, drives and encouraging tourism, barking, felling in spring. France. Pages 165-167: Glenbervie's life. Pages 167-203: Principles of growing oaks; Dean Forest, experiments in New...
Dates:
August 27, 1819