Notebooks [4 vols] Nos 6-9, 1972-74
Notebooks [4 vols] Nos 10-13, 1974-77
Notebooks [3 vols] Nos 14-16, 1977-80
Notebooks [4 vols] Nos 17-20, 1980-86
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.
Drosophila: notebooks on selections, tables, glass plate negative, reprints
Material gathered by Brian Snoad and notes re the foundation of pea research at John Innes, specifically the growth of the John Innes pea breeding programme, the Pisum Collection, the Pea Gene Bank and the 'leafless' and 'semi-leafless' pea
Brian Snoad interviewed by Sarah Wilmot and Mike Ambrose, audio file (160406-002 Brian Snoad.wav), 55.15 mins. Discusses work at JIC (1958-1984): work on chromosomes of peas, includes working with Len La Cour, Ken Dodds and C D Darlington
Correspondence between Prof P C Sylvester Bradley of Sheffield University and contributors to the British Rose Survey (ordered alphabetically)