2 documents. Typed. Handwritten annotations.
Hoarea Chromosome Numbers. Tables. List specimens and chromosome counts.
Gibby, Professor Mary1 document. 13 pages. Typed.
[TITLE] HOAREA CHROMOSOME NUMBERS
List specimens and chromosome counts.
Gibby, Professor Mary1 document. 12 pages. Typed. Handwritten annotations.
[TITLE] HOARE CHROMOS NRS.GIBBY
[HANDWRITTEN] Sort: STEU-NR
List specimens and chromosome counts.
Gibby, Professor MaryBook of newspaper cuttings and notes relative to the H.M.S Challenger (1873-76)
Box of Challenger photographs
‘The Challenger Expedition, 1872-1876: A Visual Index’ by Eileen V. Brunton, 2nd Ed, The Library, The Natural History Museum, London (2004)
Vellum bound 1769 copy of Haller’s History of the Plants of Switzerland, in Latin and containing detailed annotations in the front and back covers and throughout. (Box 1)
von Haller, Albrecht, 1708-1777, anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopaedist, bibliographer and poet- SUMMARY:
Notes record securing a Himalayan Goldcrest on March 11, the first time L. has seen the species in Bhutan. Observations detail habitats and elevations across Sakden, Pumbi La, Reyimpu, Chungkar, and Tro Shika near the Teboba plateau. Brief logistical notes mention P. Whiler and arrivals dated 26–28.
CONTENT:
E 140° M 170 280 Sissin La
Choling La W
Rumzang
L p. 25 - to Sakden - March 11, 12, 13, 14
28:
Secured Regulus regulus sikkimensis - March 11. First time L. has seen Goldcrest in Bhutan.
Sakden bird from Oak forest. Others Pumbi La - 6 Sept shown Fir forest; one at Reyimpu (6000) in birch forest. Chungkar bird (11,000) in a Pinus nepalensis plantation. On 20 April got a bird at Tro Shika in buckthorn jungle on edge of Teboba plateau. So the Himalayan Goldcrest is very partial as to its habitat - see Ibis 204.
P. Whiler 12-15. grass sp. 1216.
- arrived 26. - 27 - 28
•(Tenerife) 3 letters, dated 1880 filed under “Henderson, Col. F”
•(Honolulu) 2 letters, dated 1866 -1867, to Dr. Thos. Anderson – items 112 & 113 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2
Correspondence with I. Bayley Balfour, 1908 -1922 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Hill, Arthur W.”
•Correspondence with Sir William Wright Smith, 1921 – 1941, filed with “Smith, Sir Wm. Wright” papers under “Hill, Sir Arthur William” in white folder in Box annotated “Kew Correspondence"
•Letter, dated 6 April 1940,
•Papers, dated June – November 1900, re: Pharmaceutical Society, Regulation of Examinations filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Pharmaceutical Society"