This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Notes on the cultivation of the white or Walcheren carrot, by Charles Poppy; dated Witnesham, Suffolk, 1840.

Letters compare the growth of cabbages cultivated in hardpan soil with cabbages fertilised with homemade compost of kitchen and garden waste, and requesting copies of photos taken of the cabbages. The final letter dated 19th July 1975 also contains remarks by Leake regarding pollution and the Waste Management Advisory Committee, which he criticises for only having two members who have qualifications in wastes of refuse and sewage.

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.

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.

The papers include personal and biographical records, records relating to her career (although there is very little about her period at Bingley Training College) including a chronological sequence kept while Garden Steward at Girton College, and to her time in Africa. There are also records relating to Procter's writing and a number of versions of her autobiography. The collection of family papers includes material of and pertaining to her sister, Joan Beauchamp Procter, zoologist.