Suomen Maataloustieteellisen Seuran toiminnasta vuosina 1909—1972

Abstract

The Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland was founded in 1909 in order to promote agricultural research in Finland and to make this activity known at home and abroad. By 1972 the Society’s membership had risen to over 400 members. An essential part of the Society’s activities has consisted of meetings with lectures. In the six or seven meetings arranged annually the Society has heard in addition to Finnish research workers a number of visiting lecturers. In 1911 the Society inaugurated two series of publications; »Publications of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland» and »Abhandlungen der Agrikulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Finnland». The former consisted of short summaries of research papers, lectures and information from the meetings, minutes of the meetings as well as annual reports and audits. The actual research papers were published in German in the latter publication. In 1928 the name of the German series was changed to »Acta Agralia Fennica» and as publication languages were chosen English, German, Swedish and Finnish. In 1929 the Society began the regular publication in English of the »Journal of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland». By the end of 1972, 129 issues had been published of the Acta Agralia Fennica. The number of published annual volumes of the Journal was 44, each volume consisting of four journals. At the beginning of 1973 the two publications were merged to form one comprehensive series under the name »Journal of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland». Each annual volume consists of 500—600 printed pages, the average number of issues being six, or minimum four, issues. The Library of the Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland is connected with the Agricultural Library of the University of Helsinki. In 1972 the Library had connections on an exchange basis with libraries in 43 countries.