1 watercolour painting of a view of Shingbe, Bhutan. Tents in the foreground, forest and mountains in the background.

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Shingbe
June, 1949

1 watercolour painting of a view of Ha Dzong [Haa Dzong], Haa District, Bhutan.

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The Ha Valley [Haa Valley]
29/10/49

GB 235 ANT/1 - photo album including photographs of John Anthony and his family, Edinburgh views and photos relating to World War One, including the Edinburgh University Officers Training Corps at Peebles in 1915 showing Cadets Brown, Purves, Mills, Anthony, Smith, Hatton and Wallinck; Anthony with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Oswestry and Llangollen (Anthony, Evans, Edwards, Gavin, Richards and Mitford) and Capt J Anthony M.C. and Capt J.H. Dick M.C. on the Somme in 1916.
GB 235 ANT/2 - Transcripts of 'The Identification of British Trees, Shrubs and Under Shrubs by means of the Microscopic Structure of their Wood', including photographs - 2 copies, loose sheets.
GB 235 ANT/3 - Original Manuscript for Flora of Sutherland, c.1970 - comparison with the published version shows the extent of J.B. Kenworthy's editing, as described in his introduction (right click, open link in new tab): http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/John_Anthonys_Flora_of_Sutherland

1 black and white photograph

Photograph of a mountain landscape, 'Lao'

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Lao
49 A 11 8
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1 page letter (1 sheet of paper) from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

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BRITISH MUSUEM (NATURAL HISTORY)
CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON S.W.7
Telephone: KENsington 6323 Telegrams: Nathismus Southkens London

18/7/64

My dear Hicks,

Yours of the 4 July, Sherriff [George Sherriff], I know, has written to you about the photographs. I enclose a list of the Black and White negatives and Colour transparencies which you took in East Bhutan. I have no slides in the Museum. If you will let me know what negatives or transparencies you want, I will send them on of course, the colour transparencies good as they were in 1949, are not up to present-day standards. That cannot be expected. I had a fortnight in Scotland and enjoyed my stay three immensely. I spent 3 days, in Edinburgh working in the Herbarium, which is now housed in a new and magnificent building which the Queen [Elizabeth II] opened a short time ago. Apart from occasional attacks of arthritis Sherriff [George Sherriff] seemed very fit. Betty [Betty Sherriff] too was in fine form, very busy as usual with a multitude of tasks.

Yours,
F. Ludlow

[Letter included a list of photograph negatives that Hicks took in East Bhutan.]

Reply
Will come to London to choose x copy?

1 page letter from Frank Ludlow to John Herbert Hicks.

The letter is undated, but based on the content is believed to have been written c. 1951

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British Museum (Natural History)
Cromwell Road
London SW7

[n.d.]

Dear Hicks,

Thanks for your card. Delighted to hear you are in town. I cannot manage evenings, I fear, as I live out at Rickmansworth, but any day that suits you will suit me at the Museum (Except March 21st and 22nd ) Drop in any day you are free (not Sundays) about noon and we will have lunch somewhere, and talk over old days. I am working out our plants by degrees. You got a lot of very good things in East Bhutan, and your material is absolutely first class.

I was to have gone to Nepal this summer but it fell through owning to political trouble. I am not greatly disappointed. I am getting to old for these treks.

Yours sincerely,
F. Ludlow

•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:

• Diary Materials 1, 1949
• Diary Materials 2, 1949
• Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
• letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
• Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
• small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
• cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
• 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
• newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
• 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick black paper.

Photograph of porter with horse. second horse and porter in background.

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On the road near Byiti Sim. Half way to Kingarapden
30/Mar/49
49.A.7.4

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick black paper.

Photograph of people traveling with horses/mules up a cliffside path. Betty Sherriff at the front, George Sherriff behind with a horse or mule. Porters follow.

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On the road to Kingarapden' [Kuenga Rabten]
1/Apr./1949
49/A/8/3