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The correspondents are friends, colleagues and others in the Cambridge and scientific communities. Most are letters of congratulation. Included are a few letters to Beatrice Bateson discussing the appointment. At A.30 is a list of the correspondents by A.G. Cock.

Contents of a file. Included at B.19 is a list of exhibitioners.

Brief correspondence, with memorandum, to Bateson

Correspondence to Bateson re various plants, including sweet and bitter almonds and Dutch brown beans; 6pp manuscript notes mostly in Bateson's hand.

Miscellaneous correspondence relating to observations of garden flowers, including hyacinth and hollyhock. A few letters are in French. These letters were found together.

Letter from Durham to E.J. Allard, head gardener, re plant seeds from Teneriffe, 1913; letters to Durham from A.W. Hill and Sir David Prain, 1914, 1915, re various plant species; 10pp manuscript draft of a paper by Durham, 'A Contribution to the study of inheritance of mice with reference to their susceptibility to transplantable tumours', nd. On the back of the final page of the draft is a manuscript note: 'Report IV Evolution Committee of Roy Soc.'.

Brief correspondence from Hill to Bateson, 1911, 1919, including a letter describing a study of goldfish.

Large volume used for recording plant-breeding experiments. Contains pencil notes: entries in the hands of Bateson and his colleagues. Sketches sometimes accompany the notes. Parts of the book are in the form of a log; other entries list seeds or seedlings received. Foliated '1-158'; not all pages used. An index to the contents is at the front (before the foliated pages begin). 26 letters to Bateson, dated 1913-1925, are pasted into the volume in various places. (4217-4245). Many of the correspondents appear to have sent seeds to Bateson for cultivation. Some further pages of notes, photographs and, occasionally, printed matter are also found pasted in.

Correspondents include A.W. Hill and members of the Sutton family (owners of the Royal Seed Establishment, Reading).