Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, (GB 0210 WPBS)
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Cymorth chwilio | Finding Aid - Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, (GB 0210 WPBS) Cynhyrchir gan Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.0 Argraffwyd: Mai 04, 2017 Printed: May 04, 2017 Wrth lunio'r disgrifiad hwn dilynwyd canllawiau ANW a seiliwyd ar ISAD(G) Ail Argraffiad; rheolau AACR2; ac LCSH Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH https://archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/welsh-plant-breeding-station-wpbs- archives-2 archives.library .wales/index.php/welsh-plant-breeding-station-wpbs-archives-2 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Allt Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion United Kingdom SY23 3BU 01970 632 800 01970 615 709 [email protected] www.llgc.org.uk Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information .............................................................................................. 3 Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch ......................... 3 Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content .......................................................................................................... 4 Trefniant | Arrangement .................................................................................................................................. 4 Nodiadau | Notes ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points ............................................................................................................... 5 Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions ............................................................................................................ 5 - Tudalen | Page 2 - GB 0210 WPBS Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, ID: GB 0210 WPBS Virtua system control vtls003844401 number [alternative]: Project identifier ANW [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: 1919-1980 / (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 4.046 cubic metres (210 boxes) Physical description: Lleoliad ffisegol | ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Physical location: Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note Title compiled from content of fonds. [generalNote]: Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch Nodyn | Note The Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) was established in 1919, largely thanks to a gift from Lord Milford. Its first Director was Sir R. George Stapledon (1882-1960), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College of Wales Aberystwyth. The Station collected plants from the best of Britain's natural fattening pastures for its breeding programme. The best-known and longest lasting was S23, first released in 1933 and deleted from the National List on 1st November 1993. In 1933, a gift from Sir Julian Cahn established the Cahn Hill Improvement Scheme at Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, concentrating on methods of establishing productive hill pastures. This project was taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to become the Pwllpeiran Experimental Husbandry Farm, now Agricultural Development and Advisory Services (ADAS). The Station's first home was in the Agricultural Buildings, Alexandra Road, Aberystwyth; it moved in 1940 to the new Agricultural Research Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, and finally transferred, in 1953, to Plas Gogerddan, north of Aberystwyth, when the Plant Genetics Department was created. Its aim was to research the inheritance Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 3 GB 0210 WPBS Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, of physiological characteristics affecting crop production. From 1964-1983, work on establishing hill pastures was based at the Pant y Dwr Research Centre near Rhayader, Radnorshire. The upland work expanded with the acquisition of Bronydd Mawr, Brecknockshire, in 1983. Grant aided by the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) since 1956, the WPBS finally became an AFRC Station in 1987. With the Grassland Research Institute, parts of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, and the Poultry Research Institute, now respectively the Animal and Grassland Research Stations of Hurley, Shinfield and Roslin, it became the new AFRC Institute of Grassland and Animal Production (IGAP). The Institute's administrative headquarters then moved to Gogerddan in 1989. A year later, the Institute changed its name to the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER). Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content General correspondence files, chiefly financial in nature, with various companies, related bodies such as National Association of Agricultural Services, etc., 1955-1979, correspondence with Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1930-1957; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1957-1968; Agricultural Research Council, 1951-1979; National Institute for Agricultural Botany, 1954-1985; WPBS reports, 1919-1980; annual reports, 1944-196; papers of the Directors and heads of sections, 1919-1974; minutes, etc., relating to various seed production committees, 1947-1957; the papers of Gwilym Evans, 1928-1961; the Cahn Hill Improvement Station at Pwllpeiran, Cwmystwyth, 1933-1973; files of experiments, with details of experiments in progress, field record cards, slips and notebooks, agrotype experiment data, including results of research undertaken at Bicton, Cambridge, Newcastle, Hurley and Aberdeen, and at Welsh county trials, [1919]-1969. Nodiadau | Notes Nodiadau teitl | Title notes Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition Deposited by the AFRC Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, per Mrs J A Edkins, Institute Librarian, in 1992. Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged into the following: general correspondence; correspondence relating to royal visit; administration; papers of directors and heads of sections, etc.; Cahn Hill Improvement Scheme; and experiments. Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 WPBS Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright regulations apply. Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales. The catalogue can be accessed online. Ychwanegiadau | Accruals Accruals are not expected. Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points • Welsh Plant Breeding Station -- Archives • Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food • Agricultural Research Council (Great Britain) • Cahn Hill Improvement Scheme. • National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Great Britain) • Plant breeding -- Research -- Wales. (pwnc) | (subject) • Agriculture -- Research -- Wales. (pwnc) | (subject) • Forage plants -- Varieties -- Wales -- Field experiments. (pwnc) | (subject) • Agricultural experiment stations -- Wales -- Aberystwyth. (pwnc) | (subject) • Aberystwyth (Wales) (pwnc) | (subject) Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container A. vtls005566440 Otherlevel - General correspondence 1950-1979. A. ISYSARCHB30 files, Cyfres | Series A1. vtls005566441 ISYSARCHB30: A-b, Dyddiad | Date: 1955. (dyddiad creu) | (date of creation) Lleoliad ffisegol | Physical location: ARCH/MSS (GB0210) Nodyn | Note: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 5 GB 0210 WPBS Welsh Plant Breeding Station (WPBS) Archives, Preferred citation: A1. Ffeil / rhestr eitemau | File / item list Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container A1/1. vtls005566442 File - A Misc, 1955. A1/1. ISYSARCHB30 A1/2. vtls005566443 File - Visit of Aberystwyth Seeds Sub- 1955. A1/2. ISYSARCHB30 Committee, Lincolnshire Seed Growers' Association and National Farmers Union Herbage and Cereal Seeds Committee, 10 June ..., A1/3. vtls005566444 File - Africa, 1955. A1/3. ISYSARCHB30 A1/4. vtls005566445 File - Department of Agricultural 1955. A1/4. ISYSARCHB30 Economics, A1/5-6. vtls005566446 File - Agricultural Research Council, 1955. A1/5-6. ISYSARCHB30 A1/7. vtls005566447 File - Alliance Assurance Company Ltd, 1955. A1/7. ISYSARCHB30 A1/8. vtls005566448 File - Central and South America, 1955. A1/8. ISYSARCHB30 A1/9. vtls005566449 File - Australia, 1955. A1/9. ISYSARCHB30 A1/10. vtls005566450 File - The Azores, 1955. A1/10. ISYSARCHB30 A1/11. vtls005566451 File - B Misc, 1955. A1/11. ISYSARCHB30 A1/12. vtls005566452 File - Baird & Tatlock (London) Ltd, 1955. A1/12. ISYSARCHB30 A1/13. vtls005566453 File - Belgium, 1955. A1/13. ISYSARCHB30 A1/14. vtls005566454 File - Bowes & Bowes (Cambridge) Ltd, 1955. A1/14. ISYSARCHB30 A1/15. vtls005566455