Unidad documental simple DB/4/4 - Horse Drawn Bean Ploughs; Bean Plants; Bees

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Photographs (x3) from the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering showing a horse plough and bean drill? with accompanying letter from Dr G F Forster (1985). Photographs (x2) of bean boxes used on horse drawn plough attachments from the Royal Agricultural Society of England from Topplesfield Museum, Essex (nd). Photographs of a bee pollinating a bean flower (strip of 6 + 1) possibly for inclusion in a publication, with notes on an envelope (1987). Photographs (x5) of beans in field with height poles, 'EEC Aug 1987', explanatory diagrams on back, 1987. Photographs (x2) of irrigated and unirrigated plants in pots with a strip of 3 negatives in a Royal Society envelope marked Mike Kirby's photos (1987) and 1 x similar larger photograph (nd) and one showing unirrigated? plants in the field. Photographs of seedlings (x7) (nd). Photograph, large of 10 different broad bean seeds. Photograph of fields of beans with staff in background, June 1970. Slides (x6) of field and tractor (nd) Slides (x2) of bees on bean flowers (nd) Slides (x8) ANF's of legumes other than V.faba for talk Dec 1993 with written list of slides made by slideworks, Nov 1993 and used at TNO workshop on ANF. Photographs (x7) of bean flowers (dated 1964) with booklet of negatives & envelope with notes (x21 in 4 strips), 1962. Notes on photographs: Written notes on colour transparencies of EEC joint field bean trials (1979-1986) for Mary Cherry. Letter from Prof. R J Summerfield (University of Reading) asking for the loan of a colour slide of a field of faba bean, with DB's notes on slides sent (1997). Typed list 'Bean slides for AJT from DAB March 1986'. Typed list 'Transparencies from SJB'. Written list 'Slides of Field Beans V.faba' Written list 'Transparencies 1992 (taken 3rd Sep 1992)' with extra notes/diagrams. Written list 'Photographs 1992 (taken 3rd Sep 1992)' with extra notes/diagrams. Misc. notes. N.b. dates on photographs may represent when printed rather then date taken