Matters relating to Trustees
Contents of an envelope so inscribed. Letters to Bateson from various American correspondents, chiefly horse breeders, concerning breeding of racehorses. Included at D.77 are related cuttings from American horse-breeding journals.
Paintings and photographs
Folder, entitled 'Tropaeolum' containing 4 Photographs: 1. and 2. Sepia photographs of Tropaeolum (2 x identical) 3. Black and white photograph of 2 Tropaeolum leaves, close up showing surface texture ( attached by tape to 4.) Back inscribed 'C. integrifolia. leaves slightly enlarged, see painting for actual size july 1923'. 4. Hand-coloured photograph of 2 Tropaeolum leaves (same as 3. above) with two yellow petals inbetween leaves, on black painted card glued on to white card,, bottom inscribed 'C. integrifolia, July 1923'.
3 Paintings: 1. Individual Tropaeolum flowers in 2 rows of 5 painted flower heads (watercolour), shades of red, orange and yellow, on 3 pieces of white card mounted on cream card (37 x17 cm); signed 'HCO', Aug 18th [19]33. Back inscribed 'Paint on Photo' but looks like a painting. Inscribed on mount referring to colours; 'orange-scarlet', 'chocolate', 'primrose', 'salmon', 'pink (magenta)' and 'yellow'. NB: JIC library catalogue (ref 4B) refers to 4 strips, unclear if this is referring to same item. 2. Tropaeolum petal paintings: on 2 pieces of white card: a) 21.2 x 16.4, petals in shades or cream, yellow, orange, pink and red/purple in 3 rows of 6, 7 and 1: inscribed 'plum? deep red spot', 'scarlet on plum?', 'yellow', 'plum? pink spot', 'deep red', 'pink', 'orange scarlet','deep red on yellow', 'chocolate', and number refs. b)13.6 x 7.7, petals in 2 rows of 4 and 2 petals in various shades of pink/red, inscribed 'bright pink on dark leaves', pink reddish', 'salmon, ground too yellow', 'carmine, bright purple', 'scarlet t[....] stigma?' , signed 'HCO' Aug 18th [19]33. Inscribed 'fine brush'' on back. Photographs: 2 hand-coloured and 4 black and white. 1. Hand-coloured on black ground, white border, 21.8 x16.4 cm, depicting 3 flower heads (stems in small glass tubes) in yellow (x2) and pink (x1) labeled 25/30, 4/30 and 3/30. Signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. 2. Hand-coloured on black ground, 21.8 x 8.1 cm, depicting 4 flower heads (stems in small glass tubes) in alternate yellow and orange, labelled '/30, 2/30, 31 and 21/30. Signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. 3. As above (2.) in black and white on black ground x 2. 1 signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. 4. 2 x near identical black and white photographs depicting 3 flower heads (stems in small glass tubes) labeled 25/30, 4/30, 3/30. 1 signed on back 'HCO' Sep 1930. These are b & w versions of the hand-coloured photograph (1.) above.
Contents of a folder so inscribed. 10 pieces of paper with colour drawings of flowers and leaves. There are annotations on most of the papers in [?Gairdner's] hand which usually include dates. In one case the annotations are on the back of the paper.
Contents of an original envelope so inscribed. Brief correspondence to Bateson.
Series A. Genetics (3 vols.); Series B. Physiology (2 vols.)