- GB 235 SIK
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- 1948 - 1950
•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).
Wood, D. Jeremy
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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).
Wood, D. Jeremy
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.
Cooper, Roland Edgar
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
Description and arrangement by G. Simpson - August 2023.
2 Boxes.
Box 1: Contains folders, GB 235/CAV/1/1 [Correspondence][GB 235/CAV/1/1 is split into two physical folders], GB 235/CAV/1/2 [Cultivation], and GB 235/CAV/1/3 [Management]. Material relates entirely to George Cave's administration of Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling, with the exception of item GB 235/CAV/1/1/1, which is a journal entry by Cave when travelling to India in 1896.
Box 2: GB 235/CAV/2 - Contains Folders that relate to various expeditions led by Cave from Lloyd botanic garden, Darjeeling, to Sikkim. Letters, Maps, Diaries, Notes.
Cave, George H.
Part of George H. Cave Collection
Identification of Specimens Collected by G. H. Cave in the Zemu and Llonakh Valleys of Sikkim, 1947
Part of George H. Cave Collection
Correspondence pertaining to how collected material is attributed to either Cave or Ribu and Rohmoo
Part of George H. Cave Collection
'Notes on Sikkim Orchids', Original handwritten notes
Part of George H. Cave Collection
Notes of itinerary route into Sikkim [Cave + Watt tour 1925?]
Part of George H. Cave Collection
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