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Lowndes, Col. Donald George

  • GB 235 LOW
  • Collection
  • 1935 - 1946

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.

Lowndes, Col. Donald George

Notes of itinerary route into Sikkim [Cave + Watt tour 1925?]

Date May 1925. - Material is not dated with a year but is most likely 1925 on account of item CAV/2/2/1 (Letter of permission for Cave and Watt to travel 15 days in Sikkim) - this itinerary was originally filed alongside the letter (2/2/1)

16th Darjeeling to Jorebungalow

17th Jorebunglow to ‘Tonglo’, now Tonglu

18th to Sandakphu

19th to ‘Phallal’? - Phalut

20th to Dentam

21st to ‘Peirnionchi’ - now Pemayangtse Monastery?

22nd to ‘Timi’ or Temi

23rd to ‘Shomdang’ or now Samdong

24th to ‘Gangtok’, Gangtok

25th to ‘Karponang’, Pusum (Karponang bungalow enroute to Nathula Pass, east of Gangtok)

26th Changu

27/28th? Gnathang

29th Rhenak

30th Kalimpong

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