'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6, Part 2: Agriculture' was written by Francesca Bray and published in 1984. Bray made extensive use of notes collected by Joseph Needham on the subject. Bray and Needham's notes are therefore mixed together. Originally Bray stored the notes in a filing cabinet under subject headings. These headings are listed in SCC2/330/1. However, many of the files contained remained empty and it was decided to merge the material into several large files, labelled according the the list.
These documents correspond to section G of the list catalogued as SCC2/330/1. The 'Agricultural Arts'. This file covers food processing and preserving; fibre products; plant protection and insecticides; vegetable oils and fats; colours and dyes; precious woods and perfumes; laquer; tanning and leather. Other files on the 'Agricultural Arts' have been retained in the file catalogued as SCC2/334/6.