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•2 letters, dated 1801 & 1803, from Thomas Horsfield in Batavia to Dr. Roxburgh, Calcutta, previously filed under “Roxburgh, Dr. Wm.” At this time, Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies, and corresponds with Jakarta, Indonesia today.
Second letter relates to Thomas Horsfield exploring the vegetation of Java, learning of indiginous knowledge of medicinal plants and his thoughts of publishing a 'Plantae Javanicae Rariores', which he eventually did.

• 3 hand drawn maps & 1 printed map of an Expedition in Siam (1921), Chengmai district, N. Thailand, to be found in Archive Box I-K. 2 expeditions were taken during 1921. Routes followed day by day marked in red. Jan-April and late April –Jun. Printed map of the Kingdom of Siam and neighbouring states pre-1939
• Hand written list of plants extracted from a copy of J.G. Koenig's ‘Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779’ (April 26th 1931), in folder in Archive Box I-K. Plants noted at Ban Pak nam, Siam. Some plants introduced since his visit.

• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Burma's Icy Mountains', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, January 1948, pp.9-17
• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Tibet as a Grazing Land', reprint from the Royal Geographical Journal, vol. CX, January 1948, pp.60-75
• 2 Airgraph letters from William Wright Smith to George Sherriff found inserted here, 4 Sep 1943 and 4 Feb 1944, moved to correspondence folder and filed alongside other similar Airgraph letters
• Sir Robert Reid, 'India's North-East Frontier', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 1944, pp.165-174
• Sir Robert Reid, 'The Excluded Areas of Assam', reprint from The Geographical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Feb., 1944), pp.18-29 - with photos
• Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Botanical and Geographical Exploration in the Assam Himalaya', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v. XCVI, No.1, July 1940, pp.1-13
• J. Hanson-Lowe, 'A Journey along the Chinese-Tibetan border', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society Journal, May 1940, pp.357-367 - with photos
• H.W. Tilman, 'Peaks of the Assam Himalaya', reprint from Royal Geographic Society Journal, November 1939, pp.402-404
• F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Irrawaddy Plateau', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society, October 1939, pp.293-308 - with photos
• F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Distribution of Primulas from the Himalaya to China, with Descriptions of some New Species', reprint from Annals of Botany, v.XLIV, No.CLXXIII, January 1930, pp.111-125, annotated by George Sherriff
• Ronald Kaulback, 'A Journey in the Salween and Tsangpo Basins, South-Eastern Tibet', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.XCI, No.2, pp.97-122 - with photos
• Patrick Fitzgerald, 'The Yunnan-Burma Road', reprint from The Geographical Society Journal, v.XCV, No.3, March 1940, pp.161-174 - with photos
• Swami Pranavananda, 'The Sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus, Sutlej and Karnali: with notes on Manasarowar and Rakas Tal', reprint from Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, February 1939, pp.126-135 - with photos
• H.W. Tilman, 'The Mount Everest Expedition of 1938', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v.XCII, No.6, December 1938, pp.481-498 - with photos
• C.B.M. Warren, 'Mountain-Sickness and the Physiological Problems of High Altitude Mountaineering', reprint from the Alpine Journal, November 1939, pp.271-283 - with photos
• Col. R. Meinertzhagen, 'On the Birds of Northern Afghanistan', reprint from Ibis, 1938, pp.480-520
• C.P. Fitgerald, 'The Tiger's Leap', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.98, no.3, September 1941, pp.147-153 - with photos