Photographs taken in Yunnan China, 2003, by Leonie Paterson
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- 2003
•Box containing photographs of an expedition to China, and George Forrest related photographs, 2003
Paterson, Leonie
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Photographs taken in Yunnan China, 2003, by Leonie Paterson
•Box containing photographs of an expedition to China, and George Forrest related photographs, 2003
Paterson, Leonie
Peter and Euan Cox Diaries and Notebooks
The Peter and Ewan Cox collection contains the diaries and notebooks of Peter Cox, detailing plant collecting trips undertaken from 1962 until 2012.
The collection also contains two books of rainfall measurements taken by Ewan Cox as well as one note book relating to plants ordered from Logan Botanic Gardens.
Ewan Cox – (1893-1977) - Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven (1893–1977), plant collector and gardener | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (oxforddnb.com)
Diaries
Plant Lists
1922? ‘ Plants ordered from Logan’
?
‘Rain Fall’ - accounts? 1922>1932
‘Rain Fall – 1932-42
Peter Cox – 1930s
Diaries
Turkey 1962 (unsure of author)
India 1965 (Not clear if Ewan but mentioned ‘Peter and I’ on 11th April
‘??? – 1967, Bookshop – 1976, RH. Conference – 1982’, Diary entries from Spain – 1967, requests for bookshop, names of customers? And diary entries from ‘RBG’ conference
China – 1981 – Also continues notes of seed+plants
‘Dolomites 1976’ – Unsure of author, contains entry from 15/9/1984
Nepal 1985
Bhutan – 1988
China - 1989
Sichuan – 1990
China – 1992
Contains photograph ‘Huan Rong, Lai Xuebo, Lai Han’
Yunnan SPR - 1992
Yunnan SPR – 1994
China 1995
Chile – 1996
Tibet - 1996
Yunnan – 1997
South Africa - 1998
Tibet - 1999(or 8?)
China – 1999
China – 2000
India - 2002
India 2004
China - 2007
Armenia – 2008
China - 2009
China - 2010
Georgia - 2011
China – 2012
Field notes?
‘1954>Notes’ – Author unclear
‘USA ETC’ 1974 (Continues into 1982?)
USA – 1978
‘IPPS’ – June - 1984
Nepal - 1985
China – 1986
China - 1986
Bhutan - 1988
Sichuan – 1989
China – 1990
USA - 1991
China - 1993
‘Field notes ETC 1992-4 – Yunnan, Tibet’
Tibet – 1996
China – 1997
Tibet - 1998
China – 1999
‘2000 – Base’ – Burma?
Australia/New Zealand – 2000
India – 2002
India - 2004
India – 2006
India – 2006 ‘No Field Notes’ – contains lists but no notes
China - 2007
China – 2012
‘Cult Book’ (Culture?) – 1980?
‘Seed Collected September/October 1978, Cox & Hutchinson.’ 3 pages a4, America, Mostly West Coast
‘Game Register’ – 1945-51
‘Hybrid Notes for book’
Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven
1 folder containing correspondence and papers regarding Tatsienlu, West China (1920-38)
Cunningham, Robert
Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 4
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Photographs recording Purdom's work as Advisor of the State Forests for the Railways. It shows Kwang Shan Po Forest Station, Chi Kung Shan, the selection of a site for establishment of forestry nurseries, the Hsi Ling tombs, Li Kia Chia, the survey of the Kalgan Railroad for afforestation, and ends with some shots at the railway station during the 1920 famine.
Purdom, William
Farrer written material, box 3; China Kansu expedition with William Purdom
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box 3: 1914-1916; includes letter from William Purdom outlining plans for 1914 China Expedition; correspondence from 1914-15 China expedition; some letters to and from Isaac Bayley Balfour, 1915; correspondence to parents from Japan, [1916?]; various maps of Kansu, China; Farrer's writings about Kansu - published reprints and manuscripts, 1916-18; Farrer's writings about Kansu - not known if published; newspaper cuttings including articles written about the 'White Wolf' of Kansu, c.1914, some written by Farrer; invoices from Kansu expedition; list of slides relating to Kansu expedition compiled in 1985; transcriptions of two photograph albums relating to Kansu expedition [RJF/2/2/3-4]; miscellaneous ephemera.
Farrer Family
Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour correspondence, Kansu
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer Correspondence (82 letters in 2 folders) relating to Farrer and Purdom's expedition to Kansu [Gansu] province in north China between 1914 and 1915.
folder 1, letters 1-40 includes correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour, David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes (regarding Farrer's irises from China) and George Redman of Farrer's Craven nursery.
folder 2, letters 41-82 includes correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour, George Redman, and Edward Arnold, publisher, regarding problems with an appendix to one of Farrer's books.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer- photograph album
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Photograph Album donated to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1984 by Miss Gwen Hall, Cumbria. It was bequeathed to her in 1976 by Elsie Purdom, William's sister. There should have been 2 albums but only one was transferred. [It looks as if the other one went to the Lakeland Horticultural Society, and is now at RBGE on permanent loan - RJF/3/1]
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 1
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Inscription to 'My dear Bill, from RF', 07/02/1917. Photographs by Farrer. Starts in Peking in 1914 and progresses to Mei S'an, Gwang Hui Ssu, Mien Chi Hsien, Hwa S'an, Lin Tung, Satanee, Siku, 'Thundercrown', Jo-ni, then in 1915, Lanchow, Sining, Wei-Yuan, 'Wolvesden Pass', Tien Tang Ssu, Chebson Ssu, 'Creda Rossa' and 'Clear Lake'. Many shots of villages and mountain scenery, including the locations where various plants were found. There are also photographs from Farrer's lone journey south from Lanchow, before he was reunited with Purdom to travel down the Ja-ling-Jang, through the Yangtze Gorges to Ichang.
Farrer, Reginald John
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
This box comprises mainly correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer and Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1888-1922) but there is also correspondence to/from Sir/Colonel David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes, George Redman of the Craven Nursery, and Edward Arnold.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 2
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Inscribed 'J. Purdom, from C.H. Hough, Xmas 1912. This appears to be from Purdom's first expedition to China between 1909 and 1912 and covers Peking, Amdo and River Tow in Tibet, Jehol, Peling Range, Kansu, Choni, and pictures of people and places, including one of Purdom himself.
Purdom, William