| Description | Correspondence, minutes and related papers which record the inception of the journal ANNALS OF BOTANY. The majority of the correspondence is between Isaac Bayley Balfour and other botanists who were consulted or concerned with the journal. Also contains correspondence with publishers Clarendon Press.
Minutes of the Annals of Botany committee meetings date from 1886-1897. Issues discussed include the journal's editorial policy, production costs and arrangements with Clarendon Press.
The first letter in the volume is from Vernon Herbert Blackman, editor of the journal, to the Director of RBG Kew, Edward Salisbury, concerning this volume being given to the library in c.1943.
The majority of the letters were received by Balfour. The letters have been numbered and details of each are as follows:
Babington, Charles C - Cambridge dated 13 Oct 1886 (f.22), Cambridge dated 15 Mar 1887 (f.81)
Baker, John Gilbert - Kew dated 11 Oct 1886 (18), Kew dated 17 Oct 1886 (31-32), Kew dated 4 Jun 1887 (127)
Bell, Alfred - London dated 12 Aug 1887 (174)
Bennett, Alfred W - London dated 19 Mar 1887 (87), London dated 25 Apr 1887 (91), London dated 28 July 1887 (164)
Blytt, Axel Gudbrand - Christiania dated 8 Jan 1887 (54), Christiania dated 15 Jan 1887 (57), Christiania dated c.May 1887 (113)
Bower, Frederick Orpen - Glasgow c.1885-1886 (4), c.1886 (15), Hillhead dated 13 Oct 1886 (23), Hillhead dated 21 Feb 1887 (74), Hillhead dated 10 May 1887 (105)
Britten, James - Southwark dated 13 Oct 1886 (16), London dated 18 Oct 1886 (37), London dated 19 Oct 1886 (38), Southwark dated 25 Oct 1886 (46)
Burbridge, Frederick William - Dublin dated 14 Oct 1886 (25)
Chatto & Windus, publishers - dated c.Mar-Apr 1888 (178)
Cleland, John - Glasgow dated 22 Jun 1887 (140)
Darwin, Francis - Cambridge dated c.Oct 1886 (21)
Doble, C E - Oxford dated 2 July 1887 (142), Oxford dated 21 July 1887 (155)
Dyer, William Thiselton - Kew dated 15 July 1885 (2-3), Kew dated 22 Oct 1886 (44), Kew dated 25 Oct 1886 (47), Kew dated 14 Jan 1887 (56), Kew dated 21 Feb 1887 (73), Kew dated 10 May 1887 (107)
Farlow, William Gilson - Massachusetts dated 17 Jan 1887 (58-60), 15 Jun 1887 (133)
Fream, William - Salisbury dated 29 Oct 1887 (175)
Gardiner, Walter - Cambridge dated 11 May 1887 (108), Cambridge dated 2 Aug 1887 (168)
Geddes, Patrick - Edinburgh dated 21 Oct 1886 (43)
Gell, Phillip Lyttelton, of Clarendon Press - Oxford dated 25 Jan 1887 (63), Oxford dated 5 Feb 1887 (65), Oxford dated 8 Feb 1887 (66), Oxford dated 21 Feb 1887 (75), Oxford dated 18 May 1887 (112), Oxford dated 13 July 1887 (148-149), Oxford dated 4 Aug 1887 (172), Oxford dated 17 Mar 1888 (177), Oxford dated 8 Jan 1889 (180)
Gray, Asa - Massachusetts dated 6 July 1886 (5)
Hartog, Marcus Cork dated 14 Oct 1886 (28-29), Ballbrack dated 28 July 1887 (162)
Hillhouse, W - Birmingham dated 20 Oct 1886 (39)
Hooker, Joseph Dalton - Sunningdale dated 2 Mar 1886 (9-10), Sunningdale dated 18 Oct 1886 (36), Sunningdale dated 2 Jan 1887 (52), Sunningdale dated 18 Mar 1887 (83-84), Sunningdale dated 24 Apr 1887 (89-90), Sunningdale dated 30 Apr 1887 (95-96), Sunningdale dated 1 May 1887 (97), Sunningdale dated 18 July 1887 (151), and Sunningdale dated 18 July 1887 (156)
Huth, Frederick - Edinburgh dated 13 July 1887 (147)
Huxley, T H - London dated 18 Oct 1886 (35)
MacFarlane, John Muirhead - Edinburgh dated 13 Oct 1886 (20)
McNab, William Ramsey - Dublin dated 22 Sept 1886 (13)
Massee, George - Kew dated 10 Jun 1887 (131),
Masters, Marshall - London dated 6 Jun 1887 (130)
Morris, Daniel - Kew dated 10 Jun 1887 (132), Kew dated 18 July 1887 (152), Kew dated 25 July 1887 (161)
Murray, George - London dated 1 Nov 1886 (49), London dated 2 May 1887 (100)
Oliver, D - Kew dated 14 Oct 1886 (26), Kew dated 18 Mar 1887 (82)
Oxford University Press - Oxford dated 27 May 1887 (117-119), Oxford dated 1 Jun 1887 (124), Oxford dated 6 Jun 1887 (129), Oxford dated 16 Jun 1887 (134-135), Oxford dated 23 Jun 1887 (141), Oxford dated 3 Aug 1887 (170), Oxford dated 4 Aug 1887 (171), and Oxford dated 23 Jan 1896 (192)
Phillips, William - Shrewsbury dated 14 Oct 1886 (30), Shrewsbury dated 1 Aug 1887 (167)
Plowright, Charles B - King's Lynn dated 17 Oct 1886 (34)
Reinsch, Paulus Friedrich - Bavaria dated 29 July 1887 (165)
Scott, Dukinfield Henry - Falmouth dated 20 Sept 1886 (12), Kew dated 12 May 1887 (109), Kew dated 27 May 1887 (116), Kew dated 31 May 1887 (122), Kew dated 1 Jun 1887 (126), Wimbledon dated 3 Aug 1887 (169)
Taylor, John Ellor - dated 5 July 1887 (146)
Vines, Sydney Howard - Cambridge dated 5 July 1886 (6), Cambridge dated 18 Feb 1886 (7), Cambridge dated 26 Feb 1886 (8), Suffolk dated 27 Apr 1886 (14), Cambridge dated 7 Oct 1886 (17), Cambridge dated 17 Oct 1886 (33), Cambridge dated 31 Oct 1886 (48), Cambridge dated 9 Nov 1886 (51), Cambridge dated 4 Jan 1887 (53), Cambridge dated 8 Jan 1887 (55), Cambridge dated 26 Jan 1887 (64), Cambridge dated 9 Feb 1887 (68), Cambridge dated 21 Feb 1887 (72), Cambridge dated 7 Mar 1887 (80), Cambridge dated 24 Apr 1887 (88), Cambridge dated 28 Apr 1887 (93), Cambridge dated 8 May 1887 (102-103), Cambridge dated 9 May 1887 (104), Cambridge dated 16 May 1887 (110), Cambridge dated 19 May 1887 (111), Cambridge dated 26 May 1887 (115), Cambridge dated 6 Jun 1887 (128), Cambridge dated 17 Jun 1887 (136), Cambridge dated 21 Jun 1887 (137), Cambridge dated c.22 Jun 1887 (138), Cambridge dated 22 Jun 1887 (139), Cambridge dated 24 Jun 1887 (141a), Cambridge dated 27 Jun 1887 (141b), Cambridge dated 6 July 1887 (143), Cambridge dated 7 July 1887 (144), Cambridge dated 12 July 1887 (145), Cambridge dated 17 July 1887 (150), Cambridge dated 19 July 1887 (153), Cambridge dated 20 July 1887 (154), Cambridge dated 22 July 1887 (157), Cambridge dated 23 July 1887 (159-160), Cambridge dated 28 July 1887 (163), and Cambridge dated 5 Aug 1887 (173)
Ward, Henry Marshall -dated 11 May 1887 (106)
Wire, Alfred, Essex Field Club librarian - Essex dated 22 July 1887 (158)
Woodall, George - Massachusetts dated 31 Oct 1887 (176)
Wright, Edward Percival - Dublin dated 19 Sept 1886 (11), London dated 30 July 1887 (166).
Copies of letters sent from Balfour:
To Mr Britten, Oxford - dated 14 Oct 1886 (24), 23 Oct 1886 (45)
To Oxford University Press - dated 20 Jan 1887 (62)
To Vines - dated c.Mar 1887 (85)
With Vines - London dated 11 Oct 1886 (19)
Related papers include copies of the journal prospectus, including annotated draft copies, asking for commitments from subscribers (70-71, 77, 86, 98-99, 101, 120-121, 125) and manuscript notes on printing costs (123).
Meeting minutes dated:
21 Oct 1886 (41-42)
5 Nov 1886 (50)
20 Jan 1887 (61)
2 Mar 1887 (79)
30 Apr 1887 (94)
19 May 1887 (114)
19 Apr 1888 (179)
4 Dec 1889 (181-182)
8 Oct 1890 (183)
23 Jan 1891 (184-185)
c.1892 (186-187)
15 Feb 1893 (188)
23 Feb 1894 (189)
30 Jan 1896 (190-191)
27 Jan 1897 (193)
Minutes include names of those present |