Northumberland’s Cockle Park Experimental Station BOOK TITLECockle Park Farm. An account of the work of the Cockle Park Experimental Station from 1896-1956 by H Cecil Pawson. Published 1960. Oxford University Press. Professor H Cecil Pawson, MBE, DSc, FRSE Cockle Park tower built for defence against the raiding Scotts in 1300 and for student accommodation in the … Read more
Botanical memories of the Heslop Harrisons By Clive Dalton (Kings 1952-56) When we 1950s Agric students were doing our degrees at Kings College, Newcastle Upon Tyne, which was then a campus of the University of Durham, we didn’t know anything about John William Heslop Harrison, D.Sc. (1917), FRS. (1921), (1881-1967). J.W. Heslop Harrison In 1920, … Read more
A critique by Chris Goldthorpe, B.Sc., M.Phil. Ph.D. King’s College, University of Durham, (1959-1962) A Rum Affair – a True Story of Botanical Fraud By Karl Sabbagh (1999) Publisher: Da Capo Press 2001 ISBN: 0-306-81060-3 Reprinted by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux Karl Sabbagh writes well and recounts a story so gripping (like any … Read more