Draft:Royal Economic and Agricultural Society
The Royal Economic and Agricultural Society (Polish: Towarzystwo Królewskie Gospodarczo-Rolnicze) was an agricultural and economic organisation in the Duchy of Warsaw in the years of 1810-1812 and in the Congress Poland in the years of 1815-1817. Established on 19 March 1810 by 43 members of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. Ludwik Gutakowski was president, Aleksander Stanisław Potocki was vice-president, and Antoni Trębicki was secretary.
Established to expand and improve domestic agriculture, domestic factories. It consisted of departments headed by a Central Council. In 1812 the society published two volumes of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. The Central Council of the Royal Economic and Agricultural Society held its last meeting on 30 June 1817.
References
[edit]- Władysław Grabski, Historia Towarzystwa Rolniczego: 1858-1861 r. T. 1, Historia rozwoju rolnictwa i sprawy włościańskiej w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku, Warszawa-Kraków 1904, s. 37–69.
- Aleksander Rembowski, Towarzystwo Królewskie Gospodarczo-Rolnicze, w: Biblioteka Warszawska 1901, T. II, s. 118–146.