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GB 235 GBY/7/6/8/4 · Item · 1 April 1999-31 March 2000
Part of Professor Mary Gibby Collection

1 page summary. Typed. A project summary from the Natural History Museum, London's internal Science Project Information System.

[TITLE] "Variation in morphology and life history traits in the neotropical pioneer tree, Trema micrantha: phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation or cryptic speciation" (SPIS no.: 1319)

Natural History Museum, London
GB 235 LSH/2/2/4 · File · 1934 - 1952
Part of The Ludlow & Sherriff Collection

This file contains 1 bundle of letters attached with treasury tags. The letters are numbered 201-295. They are almost entirely sent between Frank Ludlow and William Wright Smith. There are a variety of photographs (primula and the camp), greetings cards and prints of scans of letters interspersed throughout. These have been left in the original order. There are also a few letters to Cowan and Fletcher (British Museum).

LSH/1/1/7/1/8 · Part · 1940-05-24
Part of The Ludlow & Sherriff Collection

SUMMARY:
Notes compare vegetation in the Tsangpo valley with that near Kyimdong Dz, highlighting distribution differences. Plants usually confined to south slopes are observed north of the Himalayas due to increased rainfall passing the barrier, with examples including Magnolia globosa, Lilium giganteum, and possibly Nymphaea.

CONTENT:
Contrast in Tsangpo valley
vegetation from that near
Kyimdong Dz-
Lil. Wardii.

Shape of side valleys Swamp

Various plants normally on South slopes only,
now appear north of the Himalayas, owing to the
increased rainfall which passes the barrier. Among these are Magnolia globosa, Lilium
giganteum, (Nymphaea?)

GB 235 LOU · Collection · 1862

2 folders, each containing around 40 specimens, the first being the collection curated by Great Aunt Lou - Louisa Hoby nee Russell in around 1862. The second seems to have been put together at least partly by 'DR' and includes seaweed specimens from Cumbrae.

Russell, Louisa
GB 235 MCW/4/2/3 · Item · undated
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers

View across flower borders and the raised flowering climbers, full plate, probable Amy Cameron image (165 x 215mm); with a small cutting pasted on the reverse - a note written by Dr MacWatt in an unidentified publication concerning the growing of Spigelia marilandica.