Typed copy of Notes on Sikkim orchids, 2 of 2 copies
- GB 235 CAV/1/2/7
- Pièce
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
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Typed copy of Notes on Sikkim orchids, 2 of 2 copies
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
ledger, Lists of plant names, where collected in Sikkim, date of collection of specimen and seed
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
141 pages. Bound ledger with printed columns, labelled: 'Serial Number', 'Name of Plant', 'Divin. of Sikkim', 'Where collected', 'Date of Coll. of specimen', 'Serial No. in Herbm.', 'Serial No. in Ind. Gdn.'
Pages arranged by plant family.
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
Starting from Rear, contains diary entries relating to 1910 expedition. Additionally, contains miscellaneous notes from 1910-1912
'The Dorincourt Exercise Book' Possible diary from 1911
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
Letter of permission for Sikkim pass
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
Fait partie de George H. Cave Collection
George Arnott Walker Arnott Collection
GB 235 GWA/1/1-2 - 'Manuscripts of some of Professor Walker Arnott's lectures, chiefly on roots and an 'Interesting historical account of the potato'', 19th century.
1st manuscript, 23 pages, covers the history of the potato and its cultivation and commercial uses, marketing and preparation for consumption. Refers to the first cultivation of the plant in Scotland in Kilsyth in 1728, and then Forfar in 1730.
2nd manuscript, 17 pages, is a continuation of the first and is devoted to many other root vegetables ranging from onions to cassava, heath pea and ginseng etc.
GB 235 GWA/2 - manuscript, 55 pages, covering the history of gardens with reference to botanic and research gardens, including a potential plan of the Royal Botanic Society of London, 19th century.
GB 235 GWA/3 - Letter from G.A. Walker Arnott to John Forbes Royale regarding the identification of plant species, written on 5th June 1837 from Arlary by Kinross. Letter refers to expectations of producing a book with Prof. Nees v Esenbeck in Germany on Himalayan plants. There is a typed transcript of this letter.
GB 235 GWA/4 - Copy of a letter from I. Bayley to Principal Barclay regarding G.A. Walker Arnott's estate/botanical collection post death, written on the 5th November 1868 alongside a copy of a letter from Bayley's son George(?) Bayley to Isaac Bayley Barclay at Glasgow University, 15 December 1880, confirming what happened to Walker Arnott's botanical collection and mahogany cabinet in 1869. Originals filed in Bayley Balfour's correspondence under G Bayley.
GB 235 GWA/5 - Copy of the biographical obituary notice of the late Dr. G.A. Walker Arnott (1868) by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn for the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.
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Fait partie de George Paxton Photographic Collection
single tree by burn
Paxton referred to this negative as 6
date and location unknown
envelope marked '6-11'
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Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham
Photocopy of the article ‘The Ascent of Mount Everest' by Col. Godwin-Austin ’
reprinted form the “Surrey Advertiser” January, 22nd, 1921. Sent to Prof. Bayley Balfour with the author’s best wishes, Feb. 8, 1921
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