Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor

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.[2]

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.

References
  1. "MacIvor, Ralph Waldo Emerson (c. 1852 - 1917)". Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  2. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Clarke, Hon. Sir William John" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

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