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Applications and correspondence regarding funding from The Royal Society, the Agricultural Research Council, the Percy Sladden Memorial Fund and the Rokefeller Foundation.

Correspondence between Dodds and other scientists, embassies and other contacts, preparing for, during and after expedition to research and collect cultivated diploid potato samples from South America, traveling to Columbia, Bolivia and Peru, including visits to Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 24 November 1959 - 5 April 1960.

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),

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),

Expenses for the South American expedition: including for hotels, meals, food, stamps, personal, post and gasoline for each country

Notebook: 'Field Notes - Potatoes in Venezuela' by K S Dodds

Applications and correspondence regarding funding and traveling expenses notebook.

Correspondence regarding 1963 expedition to Bolivia

Correspondence about the Bolivia expedition including a summary of the proposed work for the Rockefeller Foundation, 'A Field Study of Weed Potatoes in Bolivia' and a Smithsonian Institution science information exchange booklet. Letters pre trip: about vehicles in Peru, letters to contacts in Bolivia including Percy Aitken, Mario Perez Criales, Dr G Barja Berrios, Dr M Cardenos, Dr Ochoa, Professor Harland, Dr Donovan S Correll, Dr Levi Jordan, Laurence L Petersen, Dr Earl E Smith, and various embassies and banks letters, post trip: about the return of vehicles and to contacts in Bolivia.

Correspondence, notes and reports about the expedition to South America