This collection covers documents and artefacts produced by (or related to) the staff and students of the North of Scotland College of Agriculture (NOSCA) from its formation in 1904 until it merged with the other Scottish Agricultural Colleges to form SAC in 1990. This includes material produced under the moniker 'School of Agriculture', used from c.1964 to describe the College's closer working relationship with the University of Aberdeen. The content of the collection includes reports, society publications, lectures, research publications, bulletins, information notes, press cuttings, prospectuses, notebooks, leaflets, exam papers, legal correspondence, weather reports, minutes, photographs, slides, negatives, microfilm, microfiche and lantern slides.

This is a management plan / consultative draft of Gardens at Auchincruive. This may have been a student’s dissertation. This is the photocopy. It is in black and white. The project looks into the opinions and uses of the gardens at Auchincruive. It is a study carried out by questionnaire and the document is complete with appendices.

This is a management plan / consultative draft of Gardens at Auchincruive. This may have been a student’s dissertation. This is the master copy. It is in colour. The project looks into the opinions and uses of the gardens at Auchincruive. It is a study carried out by questionnaire and the document is complete with appendices.

This is a plan for the design and construction of 'byres' (cowsheds for Ayrshire cattle) created in 1953. It contains 47 cross-section sketches complete with dimensions and annotations. The plans were created for Niels M. Plum, the director of the Danish National Institute of Building Research.