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== Bibliography ==
Young 1771, "Letter II", in The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, vol. I (London, 1771 ), p. 124
Young, A., 1776-1791 (1932): Tours in England and Wales. (Selected from the Annals of Agriculture), London School of Economics
Marshall 1790, The rural economy of the Midland counties (2 vols, London, 1790; vol1/vol2)
W. Redhead, R. Laing and W. Marshall jun., Observations on the different breeds of sheep, and the state of sheep farming in some of the principal counties of England (Edinburgh, 1792), pp. 33–39
John Lawrence, "Robert Bakewell", The Annual Necrology for 1797-8; including, also, various articles of neglected biography (London, 1800/1805) (note: final 2-3 pages omitted from Google Books scan of the 1800 edition)
Pitt 1809, A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Leicester. Richard Phillips, London.
J. Hunt, Agricultural memoirs; or history of the Dishley System. In answer to Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart., M.P. (Nottingham, 1812), p. 119
Youatt 1834, Cattle: Their breeds, management, and diseases
George Culley & Robert Heaton 1804, Observations on live stock: containing hints for choosing and improving the best breeds of the most useful kinds of domestic animals
Darwin, Charles, 1842, "Sketch on Natural Selection"
Darwin, Charles, 1844, "On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection"
Housman 1894, "Robert Bakewell", Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
Pawson 1957, Robert Bakewell: Pioneer livestock breeder
Nicholas Russell 1986, Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England
Hall & Clutton-Brock 1989, Two hundred years of British farm livestock
Pat Stanley 1995, Robert Bakewell and the Longhorn Breed of Cattle (ISBN 0-85236-305-2)
Wykes 2004, "Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) of Dishley: farmer and livestock improver"
Wood & Orel 2005, "Scientific Breeding in Central Europe during the Early Nineteenth Century: Background to Mendel's Later Work", Journal of the History of Biology 38, p. 251
Cobb 2006, "Heredity before genetics: a history"
Wood, R. J. & Orel, V. Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding: a Prelude to Mendel (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2001)
Schinto 2006, "Good Breeding: British Livestock Portraits, 1780-1900", Gastronomica (Summer 2006)
Orel 1997, "Cloning, Inbreeding, and History", Quarterly Review of Biology 72:4 (December 1997), p. 437-440
Derry 2003, Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), p. 9
Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987), p. 47
Anne Orde (ed.), Matthew Culley, George Culley: Travel Journals and Letters, 1765-1798 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 10
Trow-Smith, History of British livestock husbandry, p. 59
R. M. Hartwell, The Industrial Revolution and economic growth (1972), p. 332