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Date May 1925. - Material is not dated with a year but is most likely 1925 on account of item CAV/2/2/1 (Letter of permission for Cave and Watt to travel 15 days in Sikkim) - this itinerary was originally filed alongside the letter (2/2/1)

16th Darjeeling to Jorebungalow

17th Jorebunglow to ‘Tonglo’, now Tonglu

18th to Sandakphu

19th to ‘Phallal’? - Phalut

20th to Dentam

21st to ‘Peirnionchi’ - now Pemayangtse Monastery?

22nd to ‘Timi’ or Temi

23rd to ‘Shomdang’ or now Samdong

24th to ‘Gangtok’, Gangtok

25th to ‘Karponang’, Pusum (Karponang bungalow enroute to Nathula Pass, east of Gangtok)

26th Changu

27/28th? Gnathang

29th Rhenak

30th Kalimpong

Notes on Professor T.T. Yu, a Chinese Botanist, provided by Edward E. Kemp, 13 Nov 1999

3 sides of foolscap with a brief summary entitled 'Professor Hu's 1937-40 Expeditions as they affect RBG Edinburgh' which provides a background to the Yu, Wang and Liu specimens held in the RBGE Herbarium.

Notes written after Yu's time at RBGE ; Chinese botanist Te-Tsun Yu's [T.T. Yu's] career was significant and in recognition that our records of his time at RBGE are limited, RBGE horticulturist Edward Kemp contributed to our records by producing an account of his time spent with Yu alongside a summary of his career. To this is added an assessment of the Yu herbarium written by Jimmy Keenan in the 1960s(?)