Sowing notes and lists by series and country
Notes and charts on sowing and keys to wheat classification ('Cantab' files): 1. Notes and charts on wheat from India (classified V1/, V2/ etc ) giving collection and sample numbers and province, nd. 2. Italian wheat; Vulgates, Durums and Abyssinian, sown 1947. 3. Greenhouse sowing, spring 1943, 'V series with four grains'. 4. Italian wheat, spring 1940-autumn 1941, series D, T and V. 5. Notes on V series. 6. American wheats, V and D series. 7. List of items wrongly classified/placed. 8. Charts describing wheat collection; 'Classification of Hexaploid Wheats', showing awn, glume and grain type and colour and card no. 9. Keys to Durum classes D1-D50 (corresponding to T1-T50) and V1-V58 (S1-58). 10. index cards on wheat samples from Tibet and Nepal sent by the Natural History Museum (George Taylor), grown 1951. Some pages written on back of typed notes on cytology and old letters crossed out.
Sowing notes in 'Cantab' file entitled 'Collection, Samples Sown 2': key to abbreviations of countries and sowing lists and notes from 1929-31 with a later added date of 1989, listed by country: Alicante, Barcelona, Portugal, Leon, Spain, Castellon, Minorca, Salamanca, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid, Belgrade, Croatia, Dalmatia, Sarajevo, Varna, India, Palestine, Burma, Eritrea, Abyssinia and Tibet.
Letters describing wheat collections, exchange of samples and trials between Arthur Watkins and officials in Australia, New Zealand, China, Washington D.C. and Germany. Australia: H Wenholz (Director of Plant Breeding, Dept of Agriculture, Sydney, New South Wales): discussion of samples of early Colonial wheat including origins of Steinwedel, Champlain's Hybrid, Black Sea and Golden Drop (1938) and letters about exchange of samples and stem rust (1931); A McTaggart (Senior Plant Introduction Officer, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Canberra): letter (1931) and charts ' Tests of Introduced Wheats; Results of Comparative Trials Conducted by Division of Plant Industry... Canberra...1935-1937', describing origin, yield, grain description and rust resistance. New Zealand: O H Frankel (Plant Geneticist, Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wheat Research Inst., Christchurch), 1941. Washington D.C. : lists of wheat sent with origin, species, variety and source, 1937. China: includes letter from Dept of Overseas Trade about box of wheat and oat samples from Newchang (Yinkou), 1928; letter from T H Shen (University of Nanking) with list of 254 Chinese wheat samples sent including description of local Nanking strain (Kiang-tung-men) and albino strains. Germany: Dr Kamlash (Halle University), 1928, M G Oehler (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Münchberg), 1929
Correspondence and reports on wheat samples in 8 sections: Portugal: (1928-9) reports of wheat types grown in local areas in Portugal including wheat types Algerian, Precoce and Prodigio, Ideal, Temporao, Alexandre, Reiti and Gentil Rosso, includes a hand drawn map of Portugal showing wheat growing areas. Yugoslavia: Belgrade, Croatia, Dalmatia, Sarajevo: (1928) reports of wheat types grown in local areas in Yugoslavia including Potiska grown near the river Tisa, Spahinska, wheat grown in the Backa region, wheat types Nova Varos, Kriva Palanka, Prilep, Gornje Lisice, Sv. Nikola, Marena Veliko Hoce and Donja Banica, 22 wheat samples from the provinces of Croatia, Slavonia and Srem, chart of wheat grown in Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla, Travnik, Banjaluka and Uzice. Poland, Russia and Romania: (1928-1942) Poland: list of winter wheat; Russia: correspondence with C Flaksberger (U.S.S.S.R Institute of Plant Industry) on hybrids and speltoids, lists of wheat samples; Romania (Varna, Armenia, Turkestan): list of samples and local wheat grown in Bulgaria and Turkestan. Syria (Aleppo), Spain (Mahon, Castellon, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Navarre, Vizcaya, Leon, Seville, Valencia, Salamanca) and the Canary Islands: (1928-9) Syria: wheat grown in Aleppo giving local name, district, soil type and characteristics; Spain: on samples from Mahon, Castelon, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Vizcaya, Navarra, Salamanca, Valencia; Canary Islands: wheat grown on the island of Tenerife (includes an annotated postcard of the island). Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, Malta: (1928-1939) correspondence with prof. Enrico Avanzi with his list of Italian wheats, list of 98 samples of Triticum, Malta wheat. Greece: Corfu, Salonica, Crete, Cyprus: (1928) about growing methods and conditions in different parts of Greece, Thessaly, a report on types grown, conditions and yields of wheat in Greece from the Lake Copais Company, reports on samples from districts in the Peloponnesus and the island of Zante, Salonica, Crete and Cyprus. France: (1935) Turkey: Smyrna: (1928-9) samples from districts around Smyrna and report on growing methods, conditions etc. , a postcard from Smyrna showing a man ploughing a field with oxen.
Correspondence with Pierre-Phillippe Claude, Agriculture Canada Research Station about the Watkin collection , includes tables and lists of genes for resistance to stem and leaf rust. Correspondence with M van Loosdrecht from the Netherland's Agricultural University, researching for the Netherland's gene bank (GBN): classification system and identifying wheat and origins.
Alison Taylor, County Archaeologist: wheat evolution & seeds for an Iron Age village at the East Anglia Show; I H Wilde, The George Ward School, Wiltshire: history project; Keith Sunderland, Glasshouse Crops Research Institute: T. monococcum, winter wheats resistance to aphids; Dr G S Sethi, Dept. of Plant Breeding, India; Pradaya Reddy, Univ. of Melbourne: induced chromosome pairing in rye to wheat; R B Gupta, Univ. of Adelaide: PhD on genetics and quality of rye storage proteins; H S Dhaliwal, Punjab Agri. Univ.: resistance to Karnal bunt (Neovossia indica); Ethel White, Queen's Univ. Belfast; Dept. of Archaeology and Prehistory, Univ. of Sheffield; Dr Nicholas Jouve, Univ. de Alcala de Henares, Madrid: Spanish common wheat cultivars; Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Experimental Station: study of polymorphism of storage protein genes, protease inhibitors in wheat, rye and barley and genetics of secalins; Liu Hong-wei, Northeast Normal Univ., China: PhD; Peter J Raymond, Monsanto Agri. Products, Missouri: disease resistance; F Diaz, Univ. de Alcala de Henares: biochemical chromosome markers in secondary lines of 6x-Triticals; Prof. J Kuspira, Univ. of Alberta: A genome; Prof. Graham Scoles, Univ. of Saskatchewan; Meran Owen, P L Dyk, Dr C Vega, Univ. of Manitoba: cultivars Prince Albert & Noé; Dr C Hammond, Univ. Louis Pasteur; J Orellana and Nieves Cunado, Univ. Complutense de Madrid; International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre, Mexico: screening for Karnal bunt, H.sativum and scab; Prof. V Kobyliansky, N. I. Vavilov Inst.; Giles Waines, Univ. California: identifying lines using leaf flavonoid patterns; Manchester Polytechnic: wheat evolution; Dr E G Zhirov, Krasnodar Lukyanenko Research Inst. of Agric., USSR; Dr Walter Nagl, Dr Tatiana Petrova, Moscow; Castell Henllys Society (Iron Age Village/ reconstructions, growing ancient wheat: letters, newspaper clipping and newsletter; J P Gustafson, Univ. of Missouri: resistance to Aluminium; Mike Padmore, Rural Preservation Assoc.: wild wheat; M d Dennett, Univ. of Reading: primitive wheats; I B Taylor, Univ. of Nottingham: wild relatives of wheat; Univ. of Leicester; Chris Chapman, International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), Washington: wheat germplasm movements; Wadham School, Somerset: development of wheat; Dr G D Heathcote, Broom's Barn Experimental Station: T. spelta.
Correspondence with agricultural research departments and universities around the world regarding seed exchange and lists of accession, the Watkins' collection, various research interests and collecting expeditions and correspondence with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand.
Folder entitled 'Aegilops & Italian' ('Cantab' file ): 1. List/chart entitled 'Parents Listed in 'Variation of the Awn"', showing Hexaploid and Letaploid? species, listing bearded, lipped, beardless, hooded etc, collection nos (V and F), c1947. 2. Notes on 1A1-5A1 and 1B1-4B1 types of wheat. 3.Notes on Reg arassa. 4. Notes on Aegilops. 5. Notes on Species Collection (titium, haynaldia, secale, amplidiploids, aegilops, agropyron). Student series sowing notes, friticum & aegilops, aegilops collection 1948. 6. Five pages of hand illustrated notes on aegilops c 1950. 7. Aegilops collection sowing lists/notes 1946-1949. 8.Sowing notes 1955. n9. Sowing notes 1950-51. 10. Key to sowing of T. mococcum 1951-52 & cage plan by V Chapman. 11. Agopyson bed notes/lists/graphs 1949-51. 12. Notes on M, T & A series 1945-50, monocucums 1-13 & aegilupoides 1-20.
Sowing notes in 'Cantab' file entitled 'Collection, Samples Sown 1': Sowing lists and notes from 1929-31 with a later added date of 1989, listed by country/city: Salonica (Greece), Crete, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, Morocco, Aleppo, Beirut, Damascus, Iraq, Sinai, Canary Islands, Tunis, Smyrna, Persia, China, Egypt, China, Algeria, Burma, Seville and Spanish Morocco.