| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings regarding subjects relating to North and Central Europe. Subjects include acquiring specimens and collections for Kew, arrangements during World War One, phylloxera vastatrix , the trial of the 'Weather plant' at Kew in 1899, and other matters of botanical interest. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Prain, Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Hill and Stapf; with letters from Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Stapf, Hill and Chipp. Includes material in French and German.
Volume includes the following indexed subjects:
-- Bellows, W. --
(Ff8-15) Papers regarding W Bellow's offer to collect specimens for Kew from the Jan Mayan Island, and Iceland. With advice from Kew regarding methods for collecting specimens.
-- Buhach --
(Ff72-86) Papers regarding Pyrethrum cineraefolium, also described as 'Dalmatia Insect powder', 'Buhach', and 'Persian powder', and on procuring specimens for the Economic Botany Museum.
-- Director's visit to Prague --
(Ff299-307) Papers regarding an invitation from the Faculty of Natural Science at the Prague Charles University, Czechoslovakia for Arthur Hill to give a series of lectures. Includes letters from Dr [Karel] Domin.
-- Flat Pea --
(Ff155-174) Papers, including printed image, regarding the 'Lathyrus silvestris Wagneri' [Lathyrus sylvestris], described as the 'great fodder plant of the future'. Includes the following printed document:
- United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Agrostology, 'The Flat Pea'.
-- Franz-Josef Land collections --
(Ff1-5) Papers regarding a small collection of plants from Franz Josef Land Includes letters to Joseph Hooker from Clement Markham.
-- Lathyrus tuberosus --
(Ff6-7) Papers regarding earth nuts received from Holland.
-- Leithe, Dr. --
(Ff280-288) Correspondence between Alfred Leithe-Jasper and Otto Stapf regarding acquisition of Dr Friedrich Leithe's collection of 'cryptogams' and mosses.
-- Phylloxera (Austria Hungary) --
(Ff41-56) Papers including the following printed document with printed map:
- RAPPORT SUR LE PHYLLOXÉRA EN HONGRIE 1872-1880. (EXTRAIT DU RAPPORT DU MINISTÈRE DE L'AGRICULTURE, DE L'INDUSTRIE ET DU COMMERCE.) (Budapest: Typographie Frères Weiszmann).
-- Phylloxera (Roumania) --
(Ff87-92) Papers including the following printed document:
- Ministère De L'Agriculture, De L'Industrie Du Commerce Et Des Domaines, Commission Centrale Pour Le Phylloxéra, 'Règlement relatif aux mesures à appliquer pour empêcher la propagation du Phylloxéra Vastatrix'
-- Phylloxera (Switzerland) --
(Ff57-71) Papers including the following printed document:
- RAPPORT DU DÉPARTEMENT FÉDÉRAL DU COMMERCE ET DE L'AGRICULTURE SUR SA GESTION EN 1881.
-- Resumption of exchanges --
(Ff278-279) Typescript document titled 'abstracts from letters by Dr Zahlbruckner (Vienna) and Dr Diels (Berlin) re resumption of exchange (translated)'.
-- Schneider collection --
(Ff175-277) Papers regarding the botanical, ethnographic and zoological collections of Camillo K Schneider of Vienna from a collecting expedition in China for the Austrian Dendrological Society. Includes information regarding the capture of the SS Koerber, actions taken by Kew to secure Schneider's collection, its custody by Kew, the British Museum and Natural History Museum, and arrangements for its return to Austria post-war. Includes letters from Schneider, Charles Sprague Sargent, David Prain, the Oversea Prize Disposal Committee, Colonial Office, Foreign Office, and British Museum and Natural History Museum, including C H Read, S F Harmer and F G Kenyon.
-- Weather plant --
(Ff93-154) Papers regarding the 'weather plant' [Abrus peregrinus, Abrus precatorius] proposed by Joseph F Nowack, and arrangements for experiments at Kew with observations taken by Dr Francis Oliver. Includes letters from Nowack, Oliver, Thiselton-Dyer, the Meteorological Office and others, results of the investigations, notes on weather and earthquakes, a printed specification for Nowack's 'weather indicator', and newspaper cuttings.
Volume also includes papers regarding (ff16-22) governmental funding for the International Botanical Society, Leiden; (ff23-24) death of Dr Maurits Greshoff, Director of the Koloniaal Museum, Haarlem; and (ff25-40) papers regarding the Ministère des Colonies [Ministry of Colonies, Brussels] including sending Agave tequilana plants, and a 'bronze orange' sample to Kew, requests for Kew's assistance in transporting plants to the Congo, a collection of wood from Katanga, and identification of grasses from the Congo collected by R P Vanderyst. Volume also includes (ff289-298) papers regarding the grant by Louise de Candolle of Augustin de Candolle's herbarium to Geneva, and the sale of the botanical library. |
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