RBGE Archive

"Notice. Travellers' bungalows in Sikkim and the Darjeeling District"

GB 235 CAV/2/4/3
Item
1922

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.

ledger, Lists of plant names, where collected in Sikkim, date of collection of specimen and seed

GB 235 CAV/1/3/3
Item
1905

Part of George H. Cave Collection

141 pages. Bound ledger with printed columns, labelled: 'Serial Number', 'Name of Plant', 'Divin. of Sikkim', 'Where collected', 'Date of Coll. of specimen', 'Serial No. in Herbm.', 'Serial No. in Ind. Gdn.'

Pages arranged by plant family.

George H. Cave Collection

GB 235 CAV
Collection
1896 - 2008

Description and arrangement by G. Simpson - August 2023.

2 Boxes.

Box 1: Contains folders, GB 235/CAV/1/1 [Correspondence][GB 235/CAV/1/1 is split into two physical folders], GB 235/CAV/1/2 [Cultivation], and GB 235/CAV/1/3 [Management]. Material relates entirely to George Cave's administration of Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling, with the exception of item GB 235/CAV/1/1/1, which is a journal entry by Cave when travelling to India in 1896.

Box 2: GB 235/CAV/2 - Contains Folders that relate to various expeditions led by Cave from Lloyd botanic garden, Darjeeling, to Sikkim. Letters, Maps, Diaries, Notes.

Cave, George H.

Correspondence pertaining to the return of 400 duplicates of material to Cave, sent from Royal Botanic Garden Sibpur, Calcutta