| Description | Manuscript and typescript memorandums and correspondence, with printed material and press cuttings relating to the following indexed subjects:
-- Arterial Roads (Tree Planting) --
(Ff39-55) Correspondence between the Ministry of Transport and Kew regarding advice on trees to be planted along the new arterial roads in Kent. Includes report by Arthur Hill and William Jackson Bean.
-- Bedford, Duke of --
(Ff29-32) Papers regarding the Duke of Bedford's request for spare duplicates of rare and recently introduced trees, and reply from Prain suggesting an exchange for speciments of fallen trees from Woburn Abbey Arboretum for the Kew Forestry Museum, with list of trees.
-- British Museum --
(Ff56-148) Papers regarding the exchange of botanical, zoological and ethnographic specimens between the Kew Economic Botany Museum and Kew Herbarium, and the British Museum (Natural History), including discussion of the 'ancient herbarium of Giovanni Maria Ferro', grasses of the Welwitsch African plants, and the Christy Collection. Includes correspondence from Henry Trimen, Augustus W Franks, Charles H Read, John Winter Jones, J Mary Lockyer and others. Includes printed material relating to the administration of the British Museum (Natural History).
-- Campbell, J Arthur (Cricket-bat Willows) --
(Ff7-23) Letters from Campbell to Prain and Hill regarding the cricket bat willow
-- Clare College, Cambridge --
(Ff189-196) Papers regarding Clare College River Garden, with letters from Walter Gardiner, Bursar, and report by Thiselton-Dyer
-- Forest of Dean School --
(Ff1-2) Printed document regarding the rules for admission and syllabus.
-- Gardeners, Worshipful Company of --
(Ff257-258) Printed document regarding a lecture by Reverend Ernest William Barnes.
-- Horticultural Education --
(Ff165-174) Includes memorandum by Thiselton-Dyer on the nature of horticultural education [sent to Middlesex County Council].
-- Imperial Forestry Education --
(Ff33-38) Printed document, titled:
- REPORT OF THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON IMPERIAL FORESTRY EDUCATION. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921).
-- Kensington Square Garden --
(Ff182-188) Memorandum by Thiselton-Dyer.
-- Natural Science, Position of, in Educational system --
(Ff210-256) Papers including printed document, titled:
- 'REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE PRIME MINISTER TO ENQUIRE INTO THE POSITION OF NATURAL SCIENCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF GREAT BRITAIN. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918).
-- Scientific Research Association --
(Ff205-209) Printed document titled 'The Scientific Research Association'.
-- Timber Research Work --
(Ff25-28) Papers including the following printed reports:
- 'Report of the Forestry Committee on an Offer of a Grant for Research Work in Timber'
- 'Report of the Forestry Committee on a Grant from the Development Fund towards the Cost of the Forestry Building'.
-- Transplanting --
(Ff3-6) Newspaper cuttings and printed images from COUNTRY LIFE.
-- University of London --
(Ff175-181) Correspondence between J M Hornsburgh [Secretary, University of London], Frederick Dickins [Assistant Registrar, University of London], and Thiselton-Dyer, regarding specimens for the University of London's Higher Examinations in Botanical Science.
-- World List of Scientific Periodicals --
(Ff149-161) Papers including memorandum of the World List of Scientific Periodicals Advisory Committee.
Volume also includes (f24) letter from Augustine Henry regarding accepting the Professorship of Forestry, Dublin (College of Science); (ff162-164) letters regarding assistance for the British Museum's Department of Botany in the field of mycology; and (ff197-204) memorandum by Thiselton-Dyer on 'Agriculture and the Empire'. |