John Donaldson (agriculturalist)

Smith's Steam Cultivator at Work, from Donaldson's British agriculture, 1860.

John Donaldson (1799–1876) was Scottish agriculturalist, professor of Botany at the Royal Agricultural Training School, Hoddesdon, government land drainage surveyor, and author of prize essays works,[1] best known as author of the 1854 Agricultural Biography.[2]

  1. ^ Frederick Law Olmsted (1852) Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England. p. 483
  2. ^ William White (1888) "John Donaldson F.S.A." in: Notes & Queries, 1888. p. 4