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During the 1930s, Dr William A. R. Dillon Weston produced nearly 1,000 watercolour paintings of plants suffering from a range of afflictions – mostly fungal infections, but also pest attacks, nutrient deficiencies, and bad farming practices. These drawings were produced in connection with his position at the Ministry of Agriculture, which he described as forming a 'link between the farm and the research station'. Farmers would send samples of afflicted crops to the Ministry, and Dillon Weston would diagnose the problem and offer solutions. This work was an example of the emerging school of 'New' or 'Economic' botany, in which economically important plant diseases were studied with an eye to increasing crop yields. The watercolour works may have been a hobby undertaken during bouts of insomnia.
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Cambridge
Title
Ceramic Tiles with a Drawing of Infected Potatoes
Date
1930–1953
Medium
ceramic & paper
Measurements
H 10 x W 10 cm
Accession number
Wh. 6658.16
Acquisition method
gift, 2012
Work type
Other
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3RH England
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