Simmonds, Peter Lund

Simmonds was born in Aarhus, Denmark. He became a writer on ‘applied sciences’, with a series of books on agriculture, food preservation, commercial foods, and beverages around the world. He was in charge of the British exhibit at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and the exhibitions at Amsterdam in 1869 and 1883, and seems to have been the director of some type of food and agriculture ‘museum’ in London. For a more detailed account of his life, see Davidson’s introduction to a facsimile edition of the book mentioned above.