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Copies of RHS fieldnotes from Furse expedition to Iran and Turkey, 1962

  • GB 235 FUR
  • File
  • 1962

5 typed sets of copied field notes for “The Furse Expedition to Iran & Turkey - 1962”. A typed covering letter from C.D. Brickell, (Botanist for the Director), Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Wisley, dated 26th March 1962 had accompanied the first consignment of plants from the Furse Expedition.

Furse, Admiral John Paul Wellington

Peter H. Davis papers

  • 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

Davis, Peter Hadland