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Box of photographs of Sikkim including plants and locations, taken by Colonel Duncan George Lowndes between around 1935 and 1937, filed alongside correspondence to R.E. Cooper regarding the photographs, and lists of plants sent to RBGE (accompanying herbarium specimens) and notes to and from James Sinclair regarding some of his plant identifications.
7 boxes containing - •Photographic notes (1965-1966) •Trek diaries •Field notes •correspondence •Immigration papers and trekking permits •Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966) •List of publications and papers •Folders of articles •Bowl made from leaves •2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (handle with extreme caution - scabbard has split)
•Correspondence with J. Brodie (1795-1811), T.C. Hope (1784-1785), and A. Menzies (1819) - all appears to be copies of correspondence held at the Linnean Society
•4 solander boxes of artwork produced between c.1915 and c.1920, mainly Primulas and Rhododendrons •Extract from Snelling’s obituary by the Earl of Morton, taken from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1973, vol.98, p.139, mounted onto card.
