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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.

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.

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick grey paper.

Photograph of mountains landscape in background, trees in foreground.

Writing on the back.

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Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling
Apr. 1949
49.A.3.1