Field Notes ETC - Yunnan, Tibet
- GB 235 PEX/1/FN/11
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- 1992-4
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Field Notes ETC - Yunnan, Tibet
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box of 35mm slides - various photos taken from the collection to illustrate talks.
letter dated 22/01/1919 from Farrer, Ingleborough, Yorkshire, to Celia Noble
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Very proud of her comments on his book, needs constant reassurance of its value. Off on 31st January to Glasgow to sail to Myitkyina, Upper Burma. Invites her to join him in Ceylon next winter. ‘Beloved Celia, I tried with all my blood and tears, to say only the truth.’
Farrer, Reginald John
‘A notable Scottish Expert: Dr John MacWatt’, short article with portrait
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers
‘A notable Scottish Expert: Dr John MacWatt’, short article with portrait from Amateur Gardening. 28 November, 1931, 592 (whole sheet 308 x 220mm).
letter dated 25/07/1920 from Farrer, Nyitadi, to Ernest Gye
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Writes of friends in London, writes of being positively happy in the mountains in the rain - painting & writing. Complains of paints being too slow drying and having to be baked by a bonfire. Now down in Capua, hoping for post and going in a fortnight to Moku-ji pass. Enjoying reading La Trompeuse and other books. Also rewriting Empty House, cutting out large sections - again not sure it will pass the agent, reader or censor.
Farrer, Reginald John
John Hutton Balfour- Printed paper for examination in Botany, May 1852
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
John Hutton Balfour- Manuscript labelled 'Reproductive Organs, influorescence'
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
'The Darjeeling Forests by J. Sykes Gamble, B.A
Part of George H. Cave Collection
Letter from George Forrest to Isaac Bayley Balfour
Part of George Forrest Collection
Letter from George Forrest to Isaac Bayley Balfour dated 08 November 1904 in which Forrest confirms the despatch of 380 plant specimens collected on his recent journey to Tzekou [Cigu]. Next trip will be to the north of the Lichiang [Lijiang] valley, working the range of mountains which cause the Yangtze bend and along the base of an immense glacier on the eastern slope of the Lichiang peak. If this proves unproductive he will go on again to the Chung Tien plateau which he and Litton were the first Europeans to visit. Believes the range forming the Mekong and Salween divide to be exceptionally rich in rhododendrons, azaleas, gentians, primulas and a five foot tall lilium with immense white bloom marked in red and highly perfumed. Specimens have been collected by the missionary fathers at Tzekou who will send bulbs to Balfour and Bulley via consul Litton. Describes journey north into Tibet with Litton, leaving Talifu [Dali] on 29 August, returning 53 days later, having covered around 1000 miles. On being mobbed at the horse fair at Sung Kwei they had to draw their revolvers in defence but had some horses and mules stolen. Gives details of their route to and from Tibet, describing plants and vegetation and a river crossing by sling bridge, illustrated by a sketch. Has felt depressed since returning to Tali, probably a reaction to so much travel and constant exposure to wet conditions and extremes of heat and cold. Regrets that all his photographs were spoiled by dampness and intends to ask Bulley for a supply of photographic plates. Confirms that there is a pine belt in Yunnan and part of Tibet, generally starting at about 9,500 feet and continuing to about 15,000 feet.
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers