Person

Guthrie, Frederick Bickell (1861 - 1927)

Born
10 December 1861
Mauritius
Died
7 February 1927
Moss Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Agricultural chemist

Summary

Frederick Guthrie was a chemist with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture 1892-1924. He was also acting Professor of Chemistry, University of Sydney 1896-1897, 1904-1905 and 1908-1909.

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Chronology

1900
Career position - President, Section B (Chemistry), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1913
Career position - President, Section K (Agriculture), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1921
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Agriculture), Australian National Research Council

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Archival resources

New South Wales Department of Agriculture

  • Frederick Bickell Guthrie - Records; New South Wales Department of Agriculture. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Books

  • Guthrie, F. B., William J. Farrer and the results of his work (Sydney: Government Printer, 1922), 26 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Gooday, Graeme J. N., 'Frederick Bickell Guthrie, 1861-1927' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Wrigley, C. W., 'Guthrie, Frederick Bickell (1861-1927), agricultural chemist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 143-144. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090137b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Guthrie, F. B., 'William Farrer', Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (1960), 533-538. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Soils', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 3 (1892), 627-629,729-733, 837-840. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 3 (1892), 841-842. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 3 (1892), 930-931. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 3 (1892), 1020. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Soils', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 4 (1893), 70-77, 129-136,196-203. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 4 (1893), 68-9, 193-5. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Soils', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 4 (1893), 283-294, 482-489. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 149-150. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'On the Choice and Use of Artificial Manures', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 144-148. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'On the Choice and Use of Artificial Manures', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 267-271,328-330, 419-423. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 724-729. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 724-729. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 875-877. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analysis of Tumut Tobacco', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 663-666. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'On the Choice and Use of Artificial Manures', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 519-521. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 522-526. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 578-579. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 5 (1894), 272-273. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 6 (1895), 714-716. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Nature of the Wines of New South Wales', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 6 (1895), 905-907. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 6 (1895), 793-796. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Soil Analysis', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 288-293, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884162. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 6 (1895), 491-496. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 6 (1895), 429-431. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Note on Imported Wheat and Flour', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7 (1896), 579-582. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'The Absorption of Water by the Gluten of Different Wheats', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7 (1896), 583-589. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Soil Analysis', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7 (1896), 58-62. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Nature of the Wines of NSW. Part I. Northern Rivers Vineyards', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7 (1896), 408-409. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Note on the Absorption of Water by the Gluten of Different Wheats', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 30 (1896), 124-134. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analysis of Hay of Paspalum dilatatum', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7 (1896), 328. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7 (1896), 754-756. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers Obtainable in New South Wales', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 289-294. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Explanatory Notes on the List of Fertilisers Published in the May Gazette', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 482-485. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'The Fodder-Value of Saltbush', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 574-578. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Remarks on the Object and Method of Soil-Analysis', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 357-359. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Agricultural Education', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 612-614. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 866-869. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 360-362. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Value of the Phosphate of Lime in Bone-dust', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 197-203. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Remarks on the Object and Method of Soil-Analysis', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 357-359. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Notes on the Soils of County Cumberland', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 9 (1898), 481-487. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 9 (1898), 1191-1194. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Notes on the Constitution of Wheat-Gluten', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 9 (1898), 363-374. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Wheat-Testing - Description of Mill', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 9 (1898), 713-716. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Notes on the Constitution of Gluten', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 339, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378305. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Soil Moisture', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 9 (1898), 1310-1315. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Chemical Notes', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 526-528. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Notes on the Milling Qualities of the Varieties of Wheat Most Commonly Grown in New South Wales', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 518-525. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Formulae for Preparing Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 919-925. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Formulae for Preparing Fertilisers', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 1053-1056. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'Soil Analysis and its Value', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 921-925. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'The Fodder Value of Some Common Shrub-Plants', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 1048-1051. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'The Interpretation of Analyses of Fodders and Feeding-Stuffs', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 1053-1056. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B., 'obituary of F.B. Guthrie, in presidential address by W.G. Woolnough', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 61 (1927), 12-13. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B.; and Gurney, E. H., 'Judging the Milling Qualities of Prize Wheats at Shows, &c.', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 860-865. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B.; and Gurney, E. H., 'Further Notes on the Milling Qualities of Different Varieties of Wheat', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 8 (1897), 755-768. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B.; and Gurney, E. H., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers Obtainable in New South Wales; 1898 List', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 9 (1898), 471-478. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B.; and Gurney, E. H., 'Milling Notes on the Lambrigg Harvest of 1897-98', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 902-918. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B.; and Gurney, E. H., 'Analyses of Commercial Fertilisers Obtainable in New South Wales', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 10 (1899), 440-446. Details
  • Guthrie, F.B.; and Turner, Fred, 'Supposed Poisonous Plant : A Description and Analysis of the "Darling Pea", "Indigo", "Cranky Pea", &c. (Swainsona galegifolia )', The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 4 (1893), 84-89. Details
  • Wrigley, C. W., 'W. J. Farrer and F. B. Guthrie: the Unique Breeder-Chemist Combination That Pioneered Quality Wheats for Australia', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 7-25. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410007.htm. Details
  • Wrigley, C. W., 'F.B. Guthrie: Australia's Pioneer Cereal Chemist', Chemistry in Australia (1988), 306-311. Details

Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_g.html. Details
  • Lee, J. W., 'Fifty years of cereal chemistry since Guthrie', Proceedings of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 42 (1975), 33-8. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

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