Catalogue of plant virus collection created by Margaret Short of the Virus Research Unit: Ordered alphabetically, originally in two binders, now repackaged into one but original order maintained. One page per virus, most entries include photographic illustrations. (Headings include 'No, Name, Synonyms, Isolated from, Date, Reference, Method of transmission, Main host plants, Local lesions, Systemic symptoms, Subsidiary hosts, Comments, Thermal inactivation, Longevity in vitro, Dilution endpoint'.) Viruses: Alfalfa Mosaic Arabis Mosaic Yellow Bean Mosaic Bean Pod Mottle Virus Belladonna Virus 1 Broad Bean Mottle Brassica Virus 1 Brassica V. 1 Rademacher strain Brassica V. 1 Tropaeolum strain Brassica Virus 3 White Campion Mosaic Carnation Mosaic Chrysanthemum Mosiac Cocksfoot Virus Cucumber Yellow/Green Mottle Mosaic Cucumber Mosaic Type Strain Cucumber Mosaic White Strain Cucumber Mosaic Yellow Strain Cymbidium Ringspot Dahlia Mosaic Iris Stripe (Mosaic) Lamium Wild Mosaic Lettuce Ringspot Ogilvy Lily Virus Mangold Virus Mbeya Mottle Virus Pea Mosaic Virus Peach Yellow Bud Mosaic Paeony ringspot Pelargonium Leaf curl Phlox virus Potato Virus X Potato Virus Y Pyrethrum Ringspot Ranunculus Mosaic Red Current Mosaic Rib-grass Mosaic Sugar Beet Ringspot Sugar Beet Yellow Net Tobacco Etch Severe strain Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Type Strain Tobacco Mottle Virus Tobacco Necrosis Tobacco Rattle Tobacco Ring-Spot Tobacco Rosette Virus (Vein-distorting and Mottle) Vein-distorting Virus Tomato Black-ring Tomato Bushy Stunt Tomato Mosaic Tomato mosaic, spot strain Tomato Spotted Wilt Trinidad Cowpea Mosaic Virus Tropaeolum Virus 1 Tulip Virus 1 Turnip Crinkle Turnip Rosette Turnip Yellow Mosaic Wild Cucumber Mosaic Virus Miscellaneous photographs Odontoglossum (Cooke) Feb 1957 Cuc. mos? Rhubarb April T.H.V Physalis Genetical? Phas. Genetical? lupin C.B.R.S.V Anemone strain W.B and N.Z.S, March C.B.R.S.V Anemone strain R. amaranticolor Anemone flower break, Aug C.B.R.S.V swede ? Rose mosaic M.A.F 9/74607, Aug '59 Lettuce spot. Tobacco N. Clausen, March '58 T.S.W Tobacco N. Clausen, March, '58 Parsley leaf C.B.R.S.V Anemone, June with healthy control Potato Y Clauson N. Vincetoxicum virus
Papers of Kenneth Manley Smith: lecture notes and experiment books.
In envelope labelled 'Aerial Enzymic Hydrolyses': prints on paper and pencil drawings in two envelopes. Note: needs repackaging into bigger folders.
Photocopies of Microscope Photographs and pencil drawings, in envelope marked "BrU & BrC-Recent".
4 spiral-bound hardback, notebooks containing handwritten experiments in diary entries dating from 26 July 1932 - 1946 Book 1: 26 July 1932 -20 May 1941. Experiments on viruses, including Spotted Wilt, Ringspot, Necrotic Tobacco, Hopkins Mottle, Brassica, Lovage, Mallow and Broad Bean Mosaic, filtration methods, absorption tests, Book 2: entitled 'Tobacco Necrosis, Lovage Viruses 1936-7', 14 July 1936 - 11 July 1941. Book 3: entitled 'Ultrafiltration 1936-7', includes experiments with Dutch Ringspot, Turnip Yellow Mosaic, Spotted Wilt, Yellow and Green Stripe, Tomato, Tobacco Mosaic Crystals and Jensen's Green Mosaic 1933-1946. Book 4: entitled 'X-Ray & U-V Light (D E Lea) 1937-', 'Field Experiments on Spread of Viruses', 23 Oct 1936 - 1943. Includes 2 letters to Smith from Douglas E Lea, 28 July and 2 Aug 1937 and 1 letter from F C Bawden, 24 Jan 1941. 2 books (bound volumes of KMS reprints): 'Studies on Potato Virus Diseases, Vol I., Nos 1-6', (1924 -1929) and 'Studies in Plant Virus Diseases, Vol. II., nos. 7-11' (1930-1933).
Folder of loose papers: Paper: 'John Innes Horticultural Institution, A Brief History' by CD Darlington, marked confidential, annotated, 33 pp., dated 16 July 1953. Untitled paper on the future of the glasshouse industry and horticulture by WJCL, 7 pp. typed and 10pp. hand written, 15 Sep 1966. Paper: 'Genetics and the John Innes Institute 1910-1950' by WJCL, 12 pp., Bayfordbury, Sep 1962. Misc. papers: 'Conversion Units', 1 p., n.d c 1960s; 'Functions of Council', 1 p., n.d c 1960s. Photographs: 5 black and white prints of JIHI scientists, mainly at their desks: John Newell, Henry Harris, John R S Fincham, Norman W Simmonds and WJCL, all 1963 (also in the JIC photo collection A-Z).
Oats collection, Bangor Universities expedition to Northern Pakistan
Data sets, maps.
GRU varieties/seed data requests and correspondence including Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth and the Scottish Plant Breeding Station, Midlothian.