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2 B & W Photographs of Double Murillo Tulip (Keizerkroon): 1. Showing 2 flowers with leaves, front reads 'Double Tulip Murillo with sport Keizerkroon (from Botanic Garden regents Park) March 31st 1922. 2. Showing 2 flowers from above.

2 black & white photographs of Murillo Tulip with bulb: 1. Black & White Photograph, mounted on white card (25.8 x 16.7 cm), showing a Murillo Tulip with bulb, black background: back inscribed 'Tulip with bad partically developed as a bulb, brought in by Miss de Winton, May 1922'. 2. As above but on grey background, not mounted (16.5 x 10.4 cm).

2 x hand-coloured photographs of a fully open murillo tulip, same or similar to Double Murillo with Keizerkroon, hand-coloured mainly white with orange/yellow/ red splashes. Backs inscribed '4/24' and dated April 1924.

3 x Indexed Album boxes: paintings, photographs and negatives, some in envelopes addressed to Alice E Gairdner. Photographs attributed to HCO, most of the paintings are signed. Includes 2 handwritten notes from William Bateson.

Framed paintings of tulips by HCO: multiple paintings mounted in one frame in various colour schemes. Many are originals or close likenesses of Osterstock's illustrations in The Genus Tulipa (1940) and The Book of the Tulip (1929) by Sir A Daniel Hall. Framed by J Hill Picture Framers, Holt. Many of the paintings are light damaged with severe colour fading, particularly in the pink and red pigments.

Pencil drawing on white card, depicting cells [?], dated 1921, with original JI envelope inscribed 'Adiantum, Variegated Prothallus, 1921'.

Black & white photograph of 2 flowering anemones, back annotated 'root cuttings from Double Anemone sylvestrum [?]...etc.

Album: (41.5 x 27.3 cm), brown card cover, 5 pages loose inside, entitled 'Antirrhinum', photo mount style pages with b & w photographs. Pg.1: 2 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of Antirrhinums in two pots, back inscribed ' cuttings showing the structure intermediate between "sepals" & leaves to be found on the early growth of the cuttings', dated Nov 1922. 2. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormal Ant.', back inscribed 'Basal cutting from abnormal plant showing no tendency to abnormality. Grows normally but at flowering time it shows same abnormality as the other siblings', dated Nov [19]22. Pg.2: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormal Ant Stem Cuttings 5.'. Back reads 'cutting from stem showing a tendency to abnormality', Nov [19]22. 2. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormal Ant Stem Cuttings' Back inscribed with a description of the abnormal growth. Not dated. 3. B & w photograph of Antirrhinum in one pot labelled 'Abnormalant Practeate Cuttings, Nov 22'. Back reads 'A cutting from "sepaloid "stem etc. Pg.3: 2 x Photographs (1 missing?): 1. B & w photograph showing flowering stem of Antirrhinum. Back reads 'Antirrhinum , original plant' Dated Sep 1922. 2. B & w photograph showing unopened flowering stem of Antirrhinum. Back reads 'Antirrhinum , original plant' Dated Sep 1922. Pg 4: 3 x Photographs: 1. B & w photograph showing Antirrhinum plant growing from ground, top in flower. Back reads 'a cutting from original abnormal', dated 25.8.[19]23. 2. B & w photograph showing Antirrhinum tip, part flowering, back reads 'Plant 8. Delilah form of fl{ower]. Red lipped, white throated, yellow central blotch on upper lip. Seedling nat[ural] from abnormal.' Dated 9 Nov [19]23. 3. B & w photograph showing Antirrhinum tip, back reads 'Plant 7, Nat[ural] seed from abnormal showing a similar abnormality to the original except that the structures are more leaf like than sepaloid'. Dated 25.8 [19]23. Pg 5. 1. B & w photograph showing two Antirrhinum plants growing from ground, tops in flower. Back reads '2nd season of observation of original abnormal Antirrhinum. dated 25.8.[19]23

2 x slides of illustrations by C Linnaeus in 'Dissartatio Botanica de Peloria', 1910 ed.