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Photocopy of Obituary from Bot. Soc. Trans. 31 to Wiiliam Grant Craib, Regius Professor of Botany at Aberdeen, who died on 1st Sept. 1933 at Kew

Information relating to the use of Travellers bungalows in Sikkim and Darjeeling, 1922.

Useful source for deciphering historic place names mentioned in other material throughout Cave collection.

Lists 47 Travellers Bungalows in Darjeeling and Sikkim, including their distance from major population centres in miles, the height in feet, and the number of bedrooms, dining rooms, sitting rooms, beds and mattresses.

Contains archaic and offensive language in reference to indigenous populations.

Published: F. M. Bailey (Political Officer in Sikkim) and J. T. Donovan (Deputy Commissioner, Darjeeling), K. N. Pradhans Press, 1922.

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(?)

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