Botany, Plant Collecting

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  • The acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby. Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen.

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    Botany, Plant Collecting

    Botany, Plant Collecting

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    Botany, Plant Collecting

    • UF plant hunting

    • UF plant collecting

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    Botany, Plant Collecting

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    Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection
    GB 235 HJH · Collection · 1949 - 1972

    •1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:

    • Diary Materials 1, 1949
    • Diary Materials 2, 1949
    • Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
    • letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
    • Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
    • small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
    • cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
    • 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
    • newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
    • 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow
     Hicks, John Herbert