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31 black and white photographs of Aquilegia and other? plants in test tubes, pots and trays and 3 microscope images

49 black and white photographs of Aquilegia including some of illustrations and prints, named plants; 'long spurred white' in Ingwersen's "scented caerulea" strain, Aquilegia Helenae, A. coepulea, A. pinetorium, A. glandulosa, A. alpina, A. suaveolens, A. truncata and authentic wild chrysentha

60 black and white photographs of Aquilegia including some of illustrations and prints, named plants; A. canadensis, helenae, vulgaris "Rose Queen", 'steak pattern in vulgaris', ecalcarata, pyrenaica, chrysantha, coevulea "Mrs Nicholls", einseliana, glandulosa, leptoceras var chrysatha, discolor, flavescens, jacunda, vividiflora, parviflora and Russian Marishuria(?), Amur River.

Aquilegia in test tubes and outside in rows

6 black and white photographs, 1 sepia photograph and 1 postcard of Aquilegia; postcard of 'Blue columbines and aspens - Colarado' to Brenhilda Schafer from Mollie Marriage, 29th June 1936.

20 black and white photographs of 'Spanish flora' with a letter to Brenhilda Schafer from Kathleen (enclosed with the photographs), letter dated 29th May 1932

Brenhilda Schafer: correspondence, notes, photographs, drawings, watercolours (mainly on research on Aquilegia) and two notebooks of comic verse. Mostly written during her post as secretary and librarian for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Institute, Merton 1926 -1942 with some additional correspondence and writing while working for BX Plastics (including as editor of the BXL Review, Xylonite Magazine) and during retirement. Brenhilda Schafer (11.4.1900 - 1973), BSc., (Lond) Birkbeck College: librarian, registrar and secretary for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Centre 1926 - 1942. While at John Innes she worked on the genetics of Aquilegia and Aconitum. Published articles: Anderson, E and Schafer, B (1931) 'Species hybrids in Aquilegia' in Ann.Bot, 639-46, Anderson, Edgar and Schafer, B (1933) 'Vicinism in Aquilegia vulgaris' in Amer.Nat.67, 190-2, Schafer, B (1934) 'Uniformity in bibliographic particulars' in Nature, Lond, 133, 380., Schafer, B and La Cour (1934) 'A chromosome survey of Aconitum. I.' in Ann.Bot, 48, 693-713. From 1942 she worked for BX Plastics.

Correspondence and some verse and comic writing, written while at John Innes Institute up to resignation in 1942, while working for BX Plastics and during her retirement.

Correspondence and miscellaneous verse and comic writing from appointment in 1926 to resignation in 1942, including appointment and resignation letters to Sir Daniel Hall and letters regarding her move to BX Plastics. Includes correspondence with Sir Daniel Hall, Prof. J B S Haldane, Sir David Prain, Prof. R Goldschmidt.

Correspondence post John Innes and some loose typed poems (one dated 1965): correspondents include Harvey F Mack and Norris W Rakestraw at the Journal of Chemical Education, USA, Leslie J Jones, Aeronautical Research Council and Dr P H Greenwood, head of the Fish Section at the Natural History Museum, includes a letter (photocopy) from the John Innes Institute to her aunt Mary Webb on receipt of the comic verse notebooks and 2 files of documents.