| Description | Correspondence sent between members of the Annals of Botany committee in January and February 1899, including founding members: Sydney Harold Vines; Dukinfield Henry Scott; Isaac Bayley Balfour; Frederick Orpen Bower; Francis Darwin; William Thiselton-Dyer; and Henry Marshall Ward. The letters mainly concern the 1899 crisis which threatened the future of the ANNALS OF BOTANY, following a dispute between Vines and Dyer which resulted in the resignation of Vines as co-editor of the journal in February 1899.
File 1:
Committee meeting agenda, 9 Feb 1898 (f.1)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 4 Jan 1899 (2-3)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 5 Jan 1899 (4-5)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 7 Jan 1899 (6)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 9 Jan 1899 (7)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 10 Jan 1899 (8)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 11 Jan 1899 (9-10)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 12 Jan 1899 (11)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 12 Jan 1899, (12-13)
Letter from W J Nixon Jeebes, of Clarendon Press, to Balfour, 14 Jan 1899 (14)
Letter from Balfour to W J Nixon Jeebes, of Clarendon Press, 16 Jan 1899 (15)
Letter from Balfour to Gardiner, 16 Jan 1899 (16)
Letter from Darwin to Gardiner, 16 Jan 1899 (17)
Letter from Balfour to Ward, 16 Jan 1899 (18)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 16 Jan 1899 (19)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 16 Jan 1899 (20)
File 2:
Letter from Ward to Balfour, 17 Jan 1899 (21)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 21 Jan 1899 (22-23)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 24 Jan 1899 (24)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 29 Jan 1899 (25-26)
Letter from Scott and Balfour, 30 Jan 1899 (27-28)
Letter from Vines and Balfour, 1 Feb 1899 (29)
Letter from Vines and Balfour, 4 Feb 1899 (30-31)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 5 Feb 1899 (32-33)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 5 Feb 1899 (34-35
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 5 Feb 1899 (36)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 6 Feb 1899 (37)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 6 Feb 1899 (38-40)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 6 Feb 1899 (41)
File 3:
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 8 Feb 1899 (42-43)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 8 Feb 1899 (44-45)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 8 Fe 1899 (46-47)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 8 Feb 1899 (48)
Letter from Balfour to Bower, 9 Feb (49-52)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 9 Feb 1899 (53-54)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 9 Feb 1899 (55-56)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 9 Feb 1899 (57)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 9 Feb 1899 (58-59)
Letter from Vines to Scott, 9 Feb 1899 (60-61)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 10 Feb 1899 (62-63)
Draft letter from Scott to committee members, 10 Feb 1899 (64-65)
File 4:
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 10 Feb 1899 (66-67)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 11 Feb 1899 (68-71)
Letter from Vines to Scott, 12 Feb 1899 (72-73)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 12 Feb 1899 (74-75)
Letter from Balfour to Dyer, 12 Feb 1899 (76-79)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 13 Feb 1899 (80)
Letter from Balfour to Dyer, 13 Feb 1899 (81-82)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 13 Feb 1899 (83-84)
Letter from Balfour to Bower, 14 Feb 1899 (85-86)
Letter from Bower to Balfour, 14 Feb 1899 (87-88)
File 5:
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 14 Feb 1899 (89-90)
Letter from Dyer to Balfour, 15 Feb 1899 (91-93)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 16 Feb 1899 (94-95)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 16 Feb 1899 (96-97)
Letter from Balfour to Dyer, 17 Feb 1899 (98)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 17 Feb 1899 (99)
Letter from Darwin to Balfour, 16 Feb 1899 (100-101)
Letter from Balfour to Dyer, 16 Feb 1899 (102-103)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 17 Feb 1899 (104)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 17 Feb 1899 (105)
Letter from Bower to Balfour, 17 Feb 1899 (106-107)
File 6:
Letter from Balfour to Bower, 19 Feb 1899 (108)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 19 Feb 1899 (109-110)
Letter from Balfour to Darwin, 19 Feb 1899 (111)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 20 Feb 1899 (112)
Letter from Copy of letter from Vines to Scott, 22 Feb 1899 (113-115)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 22 Feb 1899 (116-117)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 22 Feb 1899 (118-119)
Letter from Darwin to Balfour, 22 Feb 1899 (120)
Copy of letter from Scott to Vines, 24 Feb 1899 (121)
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 24 Feb 1899 (122-123)
File 7:
Letter from Scott to Balfour, 25 Feb 1899 (124-125)
Letter from Copy of letter from Vines to Scott, 25 Feb 1899 (126-127)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 26 Feb 1899 (128-129)
Letter from Balfour to Vines, 27 Feb 1899 (130)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 27 Feb 1899 (131-132)
Letter from Balfour to Scott, 28 Feb 1899 (133)
Letter from Balfour to Ward, 28 Feb 1899 (134)
Letter from Balfour to Bower, 28 Feb 1899 (135)
Letter from Vines to Balfour, 28 Feb 1899 (136)
Letter from Balfour to Darwin, 28 Feb 1899 (137)
Letter from Balfour to Gardiner, 28 Feb 1899 (138) |