Sir Kenneth Blaxter F.R.S., 'People, Food and Resources', (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986). Hard back.
Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo, 'Trashing The Planet, How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion,of the Ozone and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things)', (Washington D.C., Regnery Gateway, 1990). Hard back.
Certificates: Grant of Plant Breeders' Rights certificates issued by the Plant Variety Rights Office, mainly originals, issued to the PBI, NSDO, PBIC and three to companies in Germany, Austria and Holland. 29 original grants and 4 copies, some additional correspondence and paperwork.
Alphabetically arranged catalogue of cereal varieties (loose pages from a file binder) in form of NSDO leaflets and annotated typed pages with information on the individual variety including origin, breeder, characteristics, resistance, quality, trial dates, tests, introduced/withdrawn dates etc. Includes NIAB recommended varieties of cereals 1978 and table of PBI contributions1970. PBI cereal varieties spreadsheet showing PBI name, codes, rights, grant nos., national list trial and NIAB trial dates and recommendations UK and overseas.
'National Seed Development Organisation Ltd. 1967-78'. Hardback book containing NSDO annual reports and accounts 1967-1976.
Paper on the history of the John Innes Foundation, The John Innes Institute and the John Innes Youth Centre and the structure of organisation.
History of John Innes compost (and W J C Lawrence) including JI compost ingredients and a JI compost leaflet
Descriptions and copies of photographs of fruit house, Merton, fruit plots Bayfordbury, Merton thornless blackberry, PT Thomas, AG Brown, MB Crane?
Postgraduate 'Discussion' Notes, N.I.A.B Field Bean and Pea Trials, Annual Report (1955), letter from H N Greenwood of N.I.A.B and reprint 'Experiments with Field Beans'
Letters from the Norfolk Agricultural Executive Committee (Sprowston) on the bean trial at Ashby in 1949, chart of variation in Testa colour, notes on chocolate spot and list of bean growers in Durham, letters from seed growers re. DB's study of Bean crops for his B.Sc, letters from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries about postgraduate scholarships, notebook on heredity and graphs.