- GB 235 CAV/1/1/4/15
- Stuk
- 31/7/1912
Part of George H. Cave Collection
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Part of George H. Cave Collection
Roland Edgar Cooper Collection
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Eight boxes of material relating to Roland Edgar Cooper who was Curator (Head Gardener) at the Royal Botanic Garden between 1934 and 1950. Material consists of correspondence, field notes, photographs and maps from his plant collecting expeditions in Sikkim, Bhutan and Punjab between 1913 and 1916, and family / genealogical information.
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Part of George H. Cave Collection
Correspondence from Smith, thanking Cave for sent Primula seeds, discusses study of Rhododendron
Part of George H. Cave Collection
Correspondence pertaining to Smith's work on Sikkim material, remounting
Part of George H. Cave Collection
"Notice. Travellers' bungalows in Sikkim and the Darjeeling District"
Part of George H. Cave Collection
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.
Box of photographs of Sikkim including plants and locations, taken by Colonel Duncan George Lowndes between around 1935 and 1937, filed alongside correspondence to R.E. Cooper regarding the photographs, and lists of plants sent to RBGE (accompanying herbarium specimens) and notes to and from James Sinclair regarding some of his plant identifications.
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•Map of Sikkim and a box containing photographs and negatives (1948-1950) and also a letter to Henry Noltie from D. Jeremy Wood regarding the photos (19 Jul 1995).
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Correspondence pertaining to how collected material is attributed to either Cave or Ribu and Rohmoo
Part of George H. Cave Collection