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Robert Adamson: Field notes of Ditcham Park woodlands

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8181

Scope and Contents

Field notes relating to the woodlands of Ditcham Park, Hampshire. The papers include detailed reports by C.J.P. Cave on local meteorological conditions. A few notes have been added to the papers by Sir Arthur Tansley. There is a covering page by Harry Godwin, Botany School Library, Cambridge University, 3 January 1975.

Dates

  • Creation: 1913-1914

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 collection (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were found in 1974 among the effects of the late Sir Arthur Tansley, who worked with Adamson on studies of the chalk grasslands of the South of England. Tansley probably received the papers during 1921 with the manuscript of Adamson's article on Ditcham Park for the Journal of ecology, which Tansley was then editing. Transferredto the University Library from the Library of the Department of Botany, Cambridge, 1977.

Bibliography

The collection relates to Adamson's paper 'Studies of the vegetation of the English chalk. I. The woodlands of Ditcham Park, Hampshire', Journal of ecology, 1921-1922, vol. X, pp. 113-219.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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