Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1965 - 2005 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
Comprehensive collection; 7 boxes ephemera (notes, correspondence, documentation) & artefacts (ceremonial knives & bowl)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
7 boxes containing -
•Photographic notes (1965-1966)
•Trek diaries
•Field notes
•correspondence
•Immigration papers and trekking permits
•Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966)
•List of publications and papers
•Folders of articles
•Bowl made from leaves
•2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (handle with extreme caution - scabbard has split)
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
•2 VHS videos added to collection, Aug, 2012, “Great Storm Legacy, Wakehurst 1987” and “Dogwood Garden, Ullapool, Summer 2005”
•3 packets of scanned photos and a bundle of 27 loose photos (may be copies of slides in ADS slide collection already held in RBGE library?) added to the collection in January 2020