Botany
Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Personal Papers of Margaret C (Nan) Anderson, 1920 - 2001
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
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.
Photograph of the Cambridge University Blackman Club, 1948x9
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.
'Plant Life Through the Ages: A Geological and Botanical Retrospect' (CUP, 1933) by A. C. Seward, 1933
Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.
Plant list for Hampstead Heath (Highgate Wood)
Plant list, I.A.-I.Q., no location
Plant list II.A.-II.M.
Plant Sciences Library: Miscellaneous Volumes
Various catalogues, plant lists and an account book.
Plant specimen
Publications by Leslie Audus, 1946 - 1996
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.
Records of George Clifford Evans relating to the teaching of Botany, 1902 - 1973
The record relate to teaching and staff.
Records of the Ray Club, 1837 - 1976
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.
Redcliffe Nathan Salaman: Scientific, Personal and Family Papers
Includes correspondence, notes, scientific papers, newscuttings and photographs. Also includes papers of Redcliffe Salaman's wife Nina Salaman.
'Religion and Philosophy: John Ray' (fifth talk in the series 'The Beginning of Modern Science, III'); draft script, 19531020
Richard T. Lowe and H. C. Watson: letters and notes on flora of Madeira
2 letters form R. T. Lowe, 1 letter from H. C. Watson, and two sheaves of notes, bound into a volume.
Samuel Dömjen: general treatise on plants
Scrap books of botanical press cuttings, the articles all written by F.S. Salisbury, usually under the pseudonym Aeschlus, 1912 - 1937
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.
Sir Everard Home: Compendium of the Linnaean System
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.
'The Significance of a Changing Flora', manuscript notes for a lecture given to open a conference
Thomas Martyn: Bibliography of botany
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.