Item KSD/2/1/1 - Correspondence

Extent: 1 folder

Correspondence about the South American Expedition to Columbia, Bolivia and Peru, including visits to Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Subjects: pre-trip funding, planning, itineraries, travel plans, costs, routes, equipment, accommodation, etc; contacts in South America, visas and passports, vehicle permits, embassy contacts, information from contacts on potatoes, climate, terrain, travel conditions, roads, altitude, languages etc., Dr Graham J Paxman, Dr Smith, travel itinerary from Barranquilla (Columbia) through Peru. Ecuador to Bolivia, information on and plans to collect indigenous and cultivated diploid potatoes in different parts of South America, samples received by post. Some background information on e.g. past trips and collections by Dodds and others and correspondents (including detailed description of a collection trip to Peru by Dr H Ross of the German Erwin-Baur-Institute). Correspondents: Dr Enrique Brücher (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, (I.N.T.A), Argentina), P.A.C Thorne and Sir William Slater (Agricultural Research Council, London), G S Williams (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Dr M V Fernàndez Valiela ( Director of the Estacion Experimental Agropecuria del Delta, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Ing. Agr. Ubaldo. C. Garcia (Director General, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuria, Inta, Buenos Aires), The Consul-General of the Argentine Embassy (London), Dr M Càrdenas (Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia), "His Excellency" J T Henderson (British Embassy, Bolivia), Professor R V Allard (Dept. of Agrophony, University of California), Professor C A Schroeder ( Dept. of Horticultural Science, University of California), Senor Víctor Kunstmann Hube (Vice Rector, Universidad Austrai de Chile, Chile), A J Broom (Steamship Company, Valparaiso, Chile), Senor D Jorge Saelzer Balde (Ministro de Agricultura, Santiago, Chile), Senor Raimundo Cabrera Guzman (Ministro de Agricultura, Santiago, Chile), Dr Nelson Estrada R., (Ministerio de Agricultura, Bogota, Columbia), Pablo Uribe (Consul General of Columbia, London), Edmundo Perez (Centro nal de Investigaciones Agricolas, Bogota, Columbia), Sr. Ing. Agr. Edmundo Salcedo (Experimental de Usme, Columbia), Dr Canuto Cardona Alvarez (Director D.I.A, Ministry of Agriculture, Bogota, Columbia), Consul General of Ecuador (London), Professor Guillermo Albornoz (Prof. of Plant Sciences, Central University, Quito, Ecuador), Alphonse C Chable (Insitite of Inter-American Affairs, Div. of Agriculture, Quito, Ecuador), Dr H Ross (Erwin-Baur-Institute, Germany), Dr J G Hawkes (Dept of Botany, Birmingham University), Dr C Ochoa and Miguel Aspillaga (Edificio Ministerio de Trabajo, Lima, Peru), Dr Cesar Vargas (Cuzco University, Peru), Dr Charles A Lummis (Lima, Peru), Sidney Cross (Institute of Genetics, Lima, Peru), The Rockefella Foundation (New York, USA), J W Purseglove, Dr G A C Herklots and Dr F W Cope (Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad), Dr Pedro J Linares ( Banco Agricola y Pecuario, Caracus, Venezuela), Dr Toxopeus (Instituut voor Veredeling van Landbouwgewassen, the Netherlands),