Comber, Harold Frederick (1897-1969)
- GB 235 CHF
- File
- 1925 - 1927
1 folder with information on an expeditions to the Andes (1925/1926/1927)
Comber, Harold Frederick
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Comber, Harold Frederick (1897-1969)
1 folder with information on an expeditions to the Andes (1925/1926/1927)
Comber, Harold Frederick
Imperial Forestry Institute (Oxford)
Papers correspondence re: Dutch Elm Disease, filed in Box “Dutch Elm Disease” – “Papers 1893 – 1953”.
Imperial Forestry Institute
•1 page of a draft of ‘A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus’, written by Hayes, Keenan and Cowan (copy in Index Box I-K) - original draft filed with J.M. Cowan papers
•Folder containing- 11 page report titled ‘Battleby House: A Survey of Some Important Trees ’ (J. Eric Robson, October 1970),
•3 copies each of Battleby Estate Management Plans 2 & 3 & “Trail” plans
•28 page Report on “Battleby House Estate” by J Keenan, 19 October 1972; referencing 119 tree species
•2 copies of two page ‘Battleby Report Continuation’ (J Keenan, 19 June 1973), duplicate copies tree records, 29 – 40, 79-107 &108-119
•4 letters to Keenan from Peter J. Bickmore, Projects Advisory Officer for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (letters from 1971-73) and one from Tom Huxley, Assistant Director of Resource Management for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (1972) (Folder in in Index Box I-K)
Keenan, James (Jimmy)
Goethe, M. (Expedition to the Andes, 1924 )
2 folders relating to M. Goethe's Plant Collecting Expedition to the Andes, 1924
•Folder 1: correspondence, dated 1924 – 1925, with M. Goethe, Henry D. McLaren & Prof. W. W. Smith
•Folder 2: Original handwritten list of 273 specimens of plants & seeds collected by M. Goethe
Goethe, M.
Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire
Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire
Owned by the Gibson family between 1922 and 1984, archive consists of:
• Early Plant Book – 1
• Rhododendron Book (Bible / Stud Book)
• List of Abbreviations relating to above two books
• Letter from Jim Gibson to David Ingram dated 24/01/1994 regarding donation of above and history of the Garden.
Glenarn Garden
Arthur Francis George Kerr Siam Expedition papers
• 3 hand drawn maps & 1 printed map of an Expedition in Siam (1921), Chengmai district, N. Thailand, to be found in Archive Box I-K. 2 expeditions were taken during 1921. Routes followed day by day marked in red. Jan-April and late April –Jun. Printed map of the Kingdom of Siam and neighbouring states pre-1939
• Hand written list of plants extracted from a copy of J.G. Koenig's ‘Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779’ (April 26th 1931), in folder in Archive Box I-K. Plants noted at Ban Pak nam, Siam. Some plants introduced since his visit.
Kerr, Arthur Francis George
Mount Everest Collection
Correspondence 1921 – 1922 filed under “Smith, Sir Wm. Wright” in “Kew corres.”
Box under “Mt Everest”
Mount Everest Collection
Imperial Bureau of Mycology (Established Kew 1920)
•Papers correspondence re: Dutch Elm Disease, filed in Box “Dutch Elm Disease” – “Papers 1893 – 1953”.
Imperial Bureau of Mycology
1 folder containing correspondence and papers regarding Tatsienlu, West China (1920-38)
Cunningham, Robert
Sir Bernard Augustus Keen Lecture Notes
Folder containing a series of six lectures on ‘Soil’ at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. Starting on 3rd February 1920 and ending on the 9th of March 1920. (A series of 6 lectures of which the second is missing) No lectures had been given on this subject in UK since 1896. Therefore timely to bring up to date the science of soil physics.
Keen, Sir Bernard Augustus