Collection HJH - Dr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

Small collection; 1 box of miscellaneous papers; glass plate negatives & 3 reels of film, now converted to dvd.

•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

Mar. 2025 - 3 cine films showing wildflowers of England and Wales with accompanying notes by Hicks added to the collection

Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/

Permission required from RBGE; collection still in copyright to the Hicks family

• English

The tape round the glass transparencies is very brittle, cracking, and being lost, some has annotations on, but very faint and illegible - extreme care required in handling these.

Herbarium specimens collected by Ludlow, Sherriff and Hicks in 1949 can be found in the RBGE Herbarium.

http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00294831