All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April The Sevier Story The Sevier Story: Farmer, inventor and amateur scientist 28/04/2021 | 40 MINS Alan Richard Sevier (1920-2013) was a truly remarkable man. Largely self-educated, he was a keen and perceptive observer, an avid reader, meticulous recorder and expansive correspondent, an inventive tinkerer and insatiably curious. In his will, he left a donation to Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture, if they would accept his trove of notebooks, diaries, reports and correspondence. LIT accepted the offer with alacrity and set up a visiting lectureship in beef cattle, and somehow it fell to me to reveal the secrets of the trove of documents. As readers will note later, despite his best efforts, AlanΓÇÖs endeavours were largely unrecognised in his home state and it was not at all clear what they might be. This account reveals the dogged persistence and near success of a lone investigator. Image: Alan Sevier with one of his Aberdeen Angus bulls. Migrating to Mukinbudin Alan came to WA from England in 1928 as an
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April The Sevier Story The Sevier Story: Farmer, inventor and amateur scientist 28/04/2021 | 40 MINS Alan Richard Sevier (1920-2013) was a truly remarkable man.
Largely self-educated, he was a keen and perceptive observer, an avid reader, meticulous recorder and expansive correspondent, an inventive tinkerer and insatiably curious.
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In his will, he left a donation to Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture, if they would accept his trove of notebooks, diaries, reports and correspondence.
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LIT accepted the offer with alacrity and set up a visiting lectureship in beef cattle, and somehow it fell to me to reveal the secrets of the trove of documents.
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As readers will note later, despite his best efforts, AlanΓÇÖs endeavours were largely unrecognised in his home state and it was not at all clear what they might be.
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This account reveals the dogged persistence and near success of a lone investigator.
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Image: Alan Sevier with one of his Aberdeen Angus bulls.
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