Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor explained

Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor (c. 1852 – 1 April 1917) was a United Kingdom agricultural chemist, active in Australia, New Zealand and Scotland.^[1]

MacIvor was educated in the United Kingdom, he became an Associate of the Institute of Chemistry in 1878 and a Fellow in 1883.^[1]

The Australian pastoralist William John Clarke paid MacIvor to lecture on agricultural chemistry in the colony of Victoria.

Publications

• MacIvor, Ralph W. Emerson, The Chemistry of Agriculture, Stillwell, Melbourne, 1879, 275 pp
• MacIvor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'MacIvor's Improved Method of Disposing of and Utilizing Night-soil, and Extracting therefrom, and Converting the Same into, Merchantable Commodities (Patent: 20 March 1886)', in Index to New South Wales Letters of Registration of Inventions, 1854 to July 1887, Government Printer, Sydney, 1891, p. 27.

Further reading

• 10.1071/HR08007 . R. W. E. MacIvor: Late-nineteenth-century Advocate for Scientific Agriculture in South-eastern Australia . 2008 . Collins . David J. . Rae . Ian D. . Historical Records of Australian Science . 19 . 2 . 125 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: MacIvor, Ralph Waldo Emerson (c. 1852 - 1917) . 21 October 2012.