Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. He was a fellow of the Royal Society.
SIR JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT was an English chemist, born at Hull. He studied chemistry first at Glasgow under Thomas Thomson; then at University College, London, in the laboratory of A. T. Thomson (1778-1849), the professor of medical jurisprudence, also attended Thomas Graham’s lectures; and finally at Giessen under Liebig. On his return to England from Germany he acted for a year or so as assistant to his old master A. T. Thomson at University College, and in 1843, after spending a short time in the study of calico dyeing and printing near Manchester, accepted the directorship of the chemical laboratory at the famous experimental station established by Sir J. B. Lawes at Rothamsted, near St Albans, for the systematic and scientific study of agriculture. This position he held for fifty-eight years, until his death on the 23rd of December 1901. The work which he carried out during that long period in collaboration with Lawes was of a most comprehensive character, involving the application of many branches of science, such as chemistry, meteorology, botany, animal and vegetable physiology, and geology; and its influence in improving the methods of practical agriculture extended all over the civilized world. For six years from 1884 he filled the Sibthorpian chair of rural economy at Oxford, Gilbert was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society in 1860, and in 1867 was awarded a royal medal jointly with Lawes. He was knighted in 1893, the year in which the jubilee of the Rothamsted experiments was celebrated.

1.Report on the growth of wheat made at Rodmersham Kent
2.Agricultural, botanical and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent grass-land, conducted for many years in succession on the same land.
3.Wheat grows year after year on the same land at Rothamsted..
4. Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent grass-land, conducted for many years in succession on the same land Part III The chemical results section I
5.The growth of sugar beet and the manufacture of sugar in the United Kingdom
6.The world’s wheat supply
7.The Royal Commission on agricultural depression and the valuation of unexhausted manures
8.The depression of corn prices…
9.Agricultural investigation at Rothamsted during a period of 50 years
10.The feeding of animals for the production of meat, milk and manure and for the exercise of force
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