Item KSD/2/1/2 - Correspondence

Extent: 1 folder

Correspondence between Dodds and other scientists before, during and after the expedition. Pre-trip preparations: route itinerary, how to act with indigenous people, advice on crossing borders etc. During trip: dates of movements, arranging meetings with other scientists at various points during the expedition, advice on where to find best potato samples, problems with sending parcels of potato samples. After Expedition: descriptions of the expedition, Dr Bruchner's proposed move to work in South Africa and visit to England, Chilean potatoes, Dodds trip back to Cochabamba with N W Simmonds of J Innes (in 1963), Dr Bruchner's publication list, a letter of recommendation for Dr Bruchner for a job at University of Rostock, description of Chile and the Andes, viruses in potato samples, description of Dr Bruchner, meeting in England with Donovan Correll, Dr Ochoa's 1952 expedition and lost samples, letters of thanks. Correspondents: Graham Paxman, Dr Enrique H Brucher (Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Mendoza, Argentine), Dr Pacheco (Venezuela), Dr Ochoa, Dr Prieto, Prof. Dr. R Schick (University of Rostock, Insitut fur Pflanzenzuchtung Gross-Lusewitz, Berlin), Dr Donovan S Correll (Head of Botanical Laboratory, Texas Research Foundation), Dr Pedro J Linares (Bango Agricola y Pecuario, Caracus, Venezuela), Dr Lee E Heidrick (Bogota, Columbia (Rockefeller Foundation)), Dr Ake Burchardt (Bogota, Columbia), Mr S W Martin (British Embassy in Bolivia), Dr Cesar Vargas (Peru), Dr Luis A Garcia and Dr Carlos E Raniel (Columbia), Dr Edgado Oehrens Bertossi and Professor Ricardo Westermeyer Einbke (Universidad Austral de Chile),