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Darwin Correspondence Project

Robert Russell

1819/20–71

Scottish agriculturalist and meteorologist. Of Pilmuir, Largo, Leven, Fife. Active member of the council of the Highland and Agricultural Society; editor of its Transactions, 1860-66. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1859.

Sources

Census returns of Scotland 1871 (The National Archives of Scotland: Largo 1/4)

Gardeners’ Chronicle, 16 September 1871, p. 1215

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 7 (1869–72): 532

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