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Botany

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:

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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

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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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Photograph of a large group of botanists [possibly the 1922 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section K (Botany) group] including A C Seward and H Hamshaw Thomas, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/3
Scope and Contents

Includes Prof. A. C. Seward (2nd from right on front seated row) and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas and Edith Gertrude Torrance ['Torrie'], his wife from 1923 (3rd and 4th from right on row behind). Also includes John Walton (Seward's son-in-law) seated 2nd from left on ground. Henry Horation Dixon (President of Section K, 1922) is seated centre on the front row, with Edith Saunders (in black) to his right.

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open
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Photograph of the Cambridge University Blackman Club, 1948x9

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.133/1
Scope and Contents

There are 15 individuals in the photograph including two women (L. Reinhold and N.H. Lerner, both of Newnham College, research students). Signatures on photograph mount.

Dates: 1948x9
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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'Plant Life Through the Ages: A Geological and Botanical Retrospect' (CUP, 1933) by A. C. Seward, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.

Dates: 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Generally open.
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Plant Sciences Library: Miscellaneous Volumes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10205
Scope and Contents

Various catalogues, plant lists and an account book.

Dates: 1800-1950
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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Publications by Leslie Audus, 1946 - 1996

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AUD/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of 58 botanical studies of grasses made in 1941 while Audus was stationed in Malaya and Singapore serving with the RAF. The collection also includes printed copies of Audus's own summary documents relating to his time in captivity as a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945 and his production of yeast in the camps to provide vitamin B1 which was deficient in their diet.

Dates: 1946 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open
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Records of George Clifford Evans relating to the teaching of Botany, 1902 - 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/GCEV
Scope and Contents

The record relate to teaching and staff.

Dates: 1902 - 1973
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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Records of the Ray Club, 1837 - 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.89
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1837 - 1976
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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Redcliffe Nathan Salaman: Scientific, Personal and Family Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8171
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notes, scientific papers, newscuttings and photographs. Also includes papers of Redcliffe Salaman's wife Nina Salaman.

Dates: 1843-1956 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Part 24 is restricted. Please apply to Department for Archives and Modern Manuscripts for access details.
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Richard T. Lowe and H. C. Watson: letters and notes on flora of Madeira

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8183
Scope and Contents

2 letters form R. T. Lowe, 1 letter from H. C. Watson, and two sheaves of notes, bound into a volume.

Dates: 1855-1868
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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Samuel Dömjen: general treatise on plants

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9675
Scope and Contents "Tracatus Vegetationum Generalis". Entire volume in Latin. Author thought to be Father Samuel Dömjen of Transylvania, who studied at Oxford before travelling to America to learn from Ben Franklin, with the intention of completing a world tour.10 chapters:Caput 1: De rusticorum FelicitateCaput 2: De Anatomia PlantarumCaput 3: De Principio VegetationisCaput 4: De Elementari Plantarum SuccoCaput 5: De Terebratione PlantarumCaput 6: De...
Dates: 1747
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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Scrap books of botanical press cuttings, the articles all written by F.S. Salisbury, usually under the pseudonym Aeschlus, 1912 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BG 42
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: 1912 - 1937
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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Sir Everard Home: Compendium of the Linnaean System

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6213-6217
Scope and Contents

Compendium of the Linnaean system of botany, with two introductory 'lectures' addressed to 'Dear Mary' (possibly Home's daughter), for whom the work was compiled.

Dates: 1822
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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Thomas Martyn: Bibliography of botany

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9689
Scope and Contents

Covers primarily works between 1400 and 1764, although also includes brief entries on particularly notable historic works. Contains index by author, but only from A to K.

Dates: 1772
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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