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• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Burma's Icy Mountains', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, January 1948, pp.9-17
• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Tibet as a Grazing Land', reprint from the Royal Geographical Journal, vol. CX, January 1948, pp.60-75
• 2 Airgraph letters from William Wright Smith to George Sherriff found inserted here, 4 Sep 1943 and 4 Feb 1944, moved to correspondence folder and filed alongside other similar Airgraph letters
• Sir Robert Reid, 'India's North-East Frontier', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 1944, pp.165-174
• Sir Robert Reid, 'The Excluded Areas of Assam', reprint from The Geographical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Feb., 1944), pp.18-29 - with photos
• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Botanical and Geographical Exploration in the Assam Himalaya', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v. XCVI, No.1, July 1940, pp.1-13
• J. Hanson-Lowe, 'A Journey along the Chinese-Tibetan border', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society Journal, May 1940, pp.357-367 - with photos
• H.W. Tilman, 'Peaks of the Assam Himalaya', reprint from Royal Geographic Society Journal, November 1939, pp.402-404
• F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Irrawaddy Plateau', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society, October 1939, pp.293-308 - with photos
• F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Distribution of Primulas from the Himalaya to China, with Descriptions of some New Species', reprint from Annals of Botany, v.XLIV, No.CLXXIII, January 1930, pp.111-125, annotated by George Sherriff
• Ronald Kaulback, 'A Journey in the Salween and Tsangpo Basins, South-Eastern Tibet', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.XCI, No.2, pp.97-122 - with photos
• Patrick Fitzgerald, 'The Yunnan-Burma Road', reprint from The Geographical Society Journal, v.XCV, No.3, March 1940, pp.161-174 - with photos
• Swami Pranavananda, 'The Sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus, Sutlej and Karnali: with notes on Manasarowar and Rakas Tal', reprint from Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, February 1939, pp.126-135 - with photos
• H.W. Tilman, 'The Mount Everest Expedition of 1938', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v.XCII, No.6, December 1938, pp.481-498 - with photos
• C.B.M. Warren, 'Mountain-Sickness and the Physiological Problems of High Altitude Mountaineering', reprint from the Alpine Journal, November 1939, pp.271-283 - with photos
• Col. R. Meinertzhagen, 'On the Birds of Northern Afghanistan', reprint from Ibis, 1938, pp.480-520
• C.P. Fitgerald, 'The Tiger's Leap', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.98, no.3, September 1941, pp.147-153 - with photos

File containing correspondence from J.R. Anderson regarding photographs and notes by C.C. Pemberton on abnormal growths of trees growing near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. N.B. In Anderson's first letter there is a reference to the fate of John Jeffrey in 1851 as recorded by Anderson's father.
the file contains letters from Anderson, copies of letters between Anderson and Pemberton, around 50 of Pemberton's photographs showing the tree growth and a report from Borthwick with his interpretation of the photographs.

• James Robert Anderson, 1841-1930, the son of A.C. Anderson, left Fort Nisqually in 1850 to attend school in Victoria for two years. He returned in 1858 and remained until his death. He was an accountant and businessman, and from 1894 until 1908, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture. He had a keen interest in natural history. His father, Alexander C. Anderson, was an early B.C. land surveyor. (right click, open link in new tab) https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/anderson-james-robert-1841-1930]
• Chartres Cecil Pemberton, 1864-1943, was a barrister, law clerk to the legislature, aboriculturist and realtor (right click, open link in new tab) https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pemberton-c-c

One file of letters from G.S. Puri, Regional botanist, Botanical Survey of India, Wester Circle, Poona to H.R. Fletcher at RBGE describing the development of the Poona herbarium, museum and experimental garden in around 1958. There is discussion of a seed exchange plus a short article on the activities of the Poona herbarium for publication in our journal [was it ever published?].