•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).

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.

Information relating to the use of Travellers bungalows in Sikkim and Darjeeling, 1922.

Useful source for deciphering historic place names mentioned in other material throughout Cave collection.

Lists 47 Travellers Bungalows in Darjeeling and Sikkim, including their distance from major population centres in miles, the height in feet, and the number of bedrooms, dining rooms, sitting rooms, beds and mattresses.

Contains archaic and offensive language in reference to indigenous populations.

Published: F. M. Bailey (Political Officer in Sikkim) and J. T. Donovan (Deputy Commissioner, Darjeeling), K. N. Pradhans Press, 1922.

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

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.

141 pages. Bound ledger with printed columns, labelled: 'Serial Number', 'Name of Plant', 'Divin. of Sikkim', 'Where collected', 'Date of Coll. of specimen', 'Serial No. in Herbm.', 'Serial No. in Ind. Gdn.'

Pages arranged by plant family.