Botany
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence with Raven's family members, 1945 - 1946
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.
Correspondence with the Amateur Entomologists' Society, 19461209 - 19461212
Edward Hanmer: Herbarium
Edward Thomas Connold: British Vegetable Galls
Printed forms, completed in manuscript, describing the characteristics of different types of vegetable gall, each with an accompanying picture.
E.P. Farrow: ''Ecology of the vegetation of Breckland''
'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).
Essay on Monkshood, with an experimental inquiry into is properties etc
Attributed to Robert Jackson. Includes letter in front of volume offering it to his friend Pringle/Pryle (?).
Fieldwork, 1878-1938
The series comprises numbered and un-numbered field notebooks;specimen catalogues; sketchbooks, photograph albums, and maps.
Flora of the Isle of Purbeck'
"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.
John Martyn: Lists of botanists
Short biographies of botanists; generally 1 per folio. Does not seem to be any particular ordering.
J.S. Henslow: Correspondence and botanical lecture notes
J.W. Salter: Drawing for Babington's ''The British Rubi''
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.
'Living Things in the Frame of Nature', an article by Raven, 19590813
Material relating mostly to John Ray and other early naturalists
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
Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.
Miscellaneous correspondence about natural history research, 1948
Miscellaneous correspondence on various botanical subjects, 1946 - 1950
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).
Miscellaneous rough notes including: lists of flora, research notes, and a note titled 'On Agamic Complexes in Plants'
Natal Indigo (Indigofera arrecta)
On the occurrence of 'hard seed' in Indigofera Arrecta Hochst
Papers of Harold Leslie Keer Whitehouse
Correspondence, drafts of publications, research notes, reviews, papers on talks and teaching, personal information on career.
Papers of Nora Barlow
Papers of Richard G. West
Papers relating to contacts and work with the Botany School, 1951 - 1990
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.
Personal Papers of Ethel Sargant, 1871 - 2008
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.