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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence with Raven's family members, 1945 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/269/7/iv/g
Scope and Contents

Letters from Charles Raven's son John, who was making botanical trips in the UK, also from his daughter Mary who was travelling in Dorset for the same reason.

Dates: 1945 - 1946
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Edward Hanmer: Herbarium

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10547
Scope and Contents A two volume annotated herbarium dating to the late eighteenth century. Signed by Edward Hanmer (1758-1821), son of Sir Job Waldon Hanmer 1st Baronet of Besttisfield Park. It contains 269 pressed plant specimens collected by Hanmer near his home in Buckinhamshire, the family seat at Bettisfield Park near Wrexham, and elsewhere on his travels through English. The text accompanying the specimens frequently quotes William Withering's Botanical arrangement of all the vegetables natrually growing...
Dates: 1780-1790
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).
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Edward Thomas Connold: British Vegetable Galls

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8658
Scope and Contents

Printed forms, completed in manuscript, describing the characteristics of different types of vegetable gall, each with an accompanying picture.

Dates: 1899-1909 (Circa)
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).
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E.P. Farrow: ''Ecology of the vegetation of Breckland''

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9681
Scope and Contents

'With two hundred photographs, charts and diagrams in the text and supplement'. 351 pages. Typescript for publication. It would seem that the document as a whole was never printed, but sections were adapted for publication in the Journal of Ecology (see Publication Notes).

Dates: 1915
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).
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Essay on Monkshood, with an experimental inquiry into is properties etc

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9691
Scope and Contents

Attributed to Robert Jackson. Includes letter in front of volume offering it to his friend Pringle/Pryle (?).

Dates: 1841
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).
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Fieldwork, 1878-1938

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Reference Code: GBR/590/HRKR/02
Scope and Contents

The series comprises numbered and un-numbered field notebooks;specimen catalogues; sketchbooks, photograph albums, and maps.

Dates: 1878-1938
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
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Flora of the Isle of Purbeck'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9678
Scope and Contents

"Flora of the Isle of Purbeck, and (other Dorset Plants), nomenclature & arrangements as per "The London Catalogue of British Plants", Edition 10". By C. B. Green.

Covers 98 plants.

Dates: 1911-1917
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).
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John Martyn: Lists of botanists

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9685-9688
Scope and Contents

Short biographies of botanists; generally 1 per folio. Does not seem to be any particular ordering.

Dates: c. 1760-1765
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).
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J.S. Henslow: Correspondence and botanical lecture notes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8176-8178
Dates: 1821-1860
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).
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J.W. Salter: Drawing for Babington's ''The British Rubi''

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9694
Scope and Contents

Drawings by J. W. Salter, intended for C. C. Babington's work 'The British Rubi', but not ready by the time the volume was published (see Publication Notes). Pencil drawings pasted into the volume the majority partially (about half) coloured, often with Latin name, and date and location. Includes some printed version of some of the drawings. Also includes account of payments due from Babington to Salter for the work.

Dates: 1865-1867 (Circa)
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).
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Minutes and papers of the Special Board for Biology and Geology (from 1926, part of the Faculty Board of Biology 'A'), successor and subordinate bodies, 1882 - 1996

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.1-6 etc
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.

Dates: 1882 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Miscellaneous correspondence on various botanical subjects, 1946 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/269/7/iv/h
Scope and Contents

This includes correspondence with: Imperial Chemical Industries about magenta colour pigment (1947); Bertha Skeat of Baliol Cottage in Sedburgh, the former home of her father Professor W. W. Skeat (1947); the Medici Society about use of illustrations (1947); the British Museum's Natural History department about various topics including the Balmoral Sorbus (1947).

Dates: 1946 - 1950
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Papers of Harold Leslie Keer Whitehouse

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10210
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, drafts of publications, research notes, reviews, papers on talks and teaching, personal information on career.

Dates: c. 1940-1999
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).
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Papers of Nora Barlow

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8904
Scope and Contents Comprises: [1] Family correspondence; correspondence with her cousin, Gwen Raverat (née Darwin), 1903-50, her sons, Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow, Erasmus Darwin Barlow and Horace Basil Barlow, her daughter, Hilda Horatia Barlow and other members of the Barlow and Darwin familites; and general correspondence. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and chronologically, with little detail about the content or subject-matter of the letters. [2] Early genetics research: notebooks,...
Dates: 1840-1970 (Circa)
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).
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Papers of Richard G. West

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10392
Scope and Contents The papers include a series of research files maintained by West relating to his site investigations and associated subjects. These are comprised of various combinations of notes, drafts, data recording sheets, correspondence, maps, sketches, charts and tables, diagrams, photographs, and annotated copies of publications. There is also a separate series of notebooks containing field notes, laboratory notes and notes synthesizing information from multiple sources; a large series of...
Dates: 1800 - 2020, predominant 1952-2019
Conditions Governing Access: The Papers of Richard West are generally available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk). Access to some files is restricted in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018. Access to some files is temporarily restricted pending conservation treatment. See individual file entries for details. Digital content requires further processing to make it accessible for consultation; this material does not currently appear in the catalogue.
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Papers relating to contacts and work with the Botany School, 1951 - 1990

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BG 45
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The archives comprise a wide range of operational records, covering the management and development of premises and grounds, garden planting, gardening advice within and without the University, visitors and Friends, accounts, bequests (including that by Reginald Cory) and staff, as well as papers concerning interaction with the Botany School and botanical research in general.

Dates: 1951 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Among the archives of the Botanic Garden, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
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Personal Papers of Ethel Sargant, 1871 - 2008

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Sargant
Scope and Contents

The most significant items held are the letters written by Ethel Sargant to Agnes Arber (nee Robertson), fellow botanist: see GCPP Sargant 2/1 below. There are also a few personal and biographical items, a volume of botanical drawings, and some botanical equipment and artefacts, including botanical slides. There is also a small file of poems written by Ethel Sargant in later life.

Dates: 1871 - 2008
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Personal Papers of Margaret C (Nan) Anderson, 1920 - 2001

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Anderson 3
Scope and Contents The papers listed here comprise miscellaneous items found with the papers of Margaret Anderson (mother of Nan Anderson) and there is some overlap with Margaret Anderson’s life, for example amongst the photographs. These papers present a fragmented snapshot of the early life and work of Nan Anderson. For example there is only one diary, though it would appear that others were written; there is a handful of letters written home to her father from New Hall, Cambridge; and there are some...
Dates: 1920 - 2001
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