Invoice submitted by Aaron Aaronsohn, bearing his signature, to the Anglo-Palestine Company for reimbursement of travel expenses incurred in Palestine in the course of his research work in agronomy. Zikhron Ya'akov, February 28, 1905. French.
The invoice is handwritten, on official stationery, and it lists a number of journeys taken by Aaronsohn in Palestine: a trip to study the wetlands and sand dunes between Jaffa and Haifa, another to study the thermal springs of Al-Hamma (today Hamat Gader), and other journeys. Stamped "Paid" and signed, with a comment, written in a different hand, probably by the Anglo-Palestine Company representative.
Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-1919) was an agronomist and botanist, and the commander of the Jewish underground "Nili." In the early twentieth century he traveled the length and breadth of the country, conducting a broad range of important agronomic studies, some of these on behalf of the Zionist institutions. In the course of a journey to Rosh Pinna in 1906, he discovered wild emmer, presumed to be the wild ancestor, domesticated some 10,000 years ago, of modern wheat. This discovery earned him international acclaim as an agronomist.
[1] f., 27 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Minor stains. Several tears and pinholes, mostly to margin and edges (not affecting text).