Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1922 - 2012 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
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Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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’
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
Conditions governing reproduction
Permission required from RBGE.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
good
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven (Subject)
- Cox, Peter (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial