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•Papers regarding the Victoria Botanic Gardens, Southern Cameroons (1916-1961)
•Papers regarding horticulture and agriculture in Southern Nigeria (1906)
•Illustrations, drawings and abstracts.

Colour map of South Africa. Drawn by Edward Weller, FRGS. Printed by Blacking & Son. Glasgow, Edinburgh, & London.

approx. 545mm x 375mm

1 page permit form from Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsiale Administrasie van Die Kaap die Goeie Hoop)

Permit no. 162/1990, granted to Mary Gibby for 1 day, 10 Sept 1991 to collect Beskermole flora.

1 page permit form from Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsiale Administrasie van Die Kaap die Goeie Hoop).

Permit no. 83/1990, granted to Mary Gibby for 1 day, 31 Dec 1990 to collect Pelargoinium.

stapled to a small piece of paper with letter head of Hoofdirektoraat Natuur-en Omgewingsbewaring.

5 permits and a few letters around permissions to collect in various localities within South Africa.

• Folder of illustrations
• Letter from J.E. Dinsmore (January 11, 1945)
• Folder of family photographs
• Map of Turkey (1973)
• Folder of various loose prints and mounted photographic/artistic material
• 2 boxes of negatives and prints
• 2 boxes of negatives and contact prints
• 1 box of transparencies
• 1 box of medals
• 3 degree certificate scrolls
• 1 box of transparencies
• 5 boxes of correspondence with contributors of Flora Turkey Accounts
• 1 vol. of Turkish meteorology
• Block of Flora of Turkey map
• Flora Iranica funding application
• 1 box of correspondence regarding collecting trips to Turkey: 1954, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1975, 1982, 1983.
• Correspondence regarding collecting trips to Morocco (1970), Algeria (1971), Iran (1974), N. Africa (1975), Brasil (1976), Ghana - cancelled (1978)
• Itineraries and maps of various plant collectors in Turkey
• 1 box containing general correspondence regarding Flora Turkey project including:
  o SRC 1961-1976 (cost of project in that time)
  o SRC 1961-1976 (grants and claims)
  o SRC reports 1982-1985
  o NATO grants
  o Composer and EUP
  o Senior Research Fellowship
  o Box containing correspondence with Edinburgh University Press and Authors, vol.1-7 Plant geography of the Middle East
• Flora of Turkey book reviews
• Synopsis of costing of Flora of Turkey project
• P.H. Davis various Articles
• Diary of a visit to Leningrad in 1959
• Seed and bulb lists (various) and subscribers
• Steedman Ramage/ Curator Bonis correspondence (access restrictions apply)
• Varia, C.V. and obituaries

Folder of papers relating to maps in Olive Hilliard's collection.
Papers include:
Copied list of Maps of Natal and Zululand, 1824-1910 from Journal of the Natal Society, no.2 Sept 1972 with attached note and correspondence from the University of Natal, November 1974.
Plant Collecting Permit, Olive Hilliard and Brian L. Burtt, Kingdom of Lesotho, January 1984
Note - list of names
Copy of hand drawn map, Sunnyside Farm, Lesotho.
Copy of hand drawn map, Meyers Farm, north of Middelburg, South Africa

one folder entitled 'Olive Hilliard's notes on the complex herbarium specimens of J.F. Drège from South Africa' containing "The Innocent's Guide to the Collections of Drege, Ecklon and Zeyher", reprints and copies of reprints: Drege, Ecklon and Zeyher, 'Numbered collecting stations/Standorter-Verzeichniss der von C.L.Zehyer in Sudafrika gesammelten Pflanzen'; Ecklon, C.F. 'Plants found in the District of Uitenhage...1829-30' from South African Quarterly, 1830; Drege, Witteberg, etc; Drege, J.F. 'Standorter-Verzeichniss der von J.F.Drege' - "Drege Area 1" and "Drege Area 5b"; "Drege's Journeys"-Kirby, Percival R 'Early Professional Museum Collectors in South Africa' in South Africa Museums Association Bulletin, 1942; 'Herbarien der sudafrikanischen aussertropischen Flora zu haben bei J.F. Drege...in Hamburg'

Collection currently comprising two folders, more expected. Olive's field books are currently held in Burtt collection.

Album is attributed to Nigel Douglas McDouall of Logan and includes:
East Africa Rift Valley: January-June 1909; 77 photographic prints, 33 watercolours and 5 pencil studies through the territories of the Uganda Protectorate (Uganda), Congo Free State (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the North Western corner of German East Africa (Rwanda)
Angola: May-October 1904, 29 watercolours, 4 views from the Africa West Coast steamer with the remainder being landscapes, vegetation and portraits of local people in the south west highland area.
Mediteranean views - 15 unlabelled watercolour views of the Mediterranean, probably Spain, including coastline views, highland scenes, a village scene and 2 views of roads through arid landscapes featuring local people.