Notebook with the above inscription, in Darlington's hand, on the cover. A label with the inscription '1933' has also been stuck onto the cover. The contents, in Darlington's hand, comprise notes and unidentified and incomplete drafts (typically just a few pages). Page headings include the following: 'Homology and Telosynapsis', 'The "Haploid" Chr. Set', 'The Theory of Genetics', 'The Cytological Theory of Evolution', 'Precocity Theory' and 'Low Charge on Sex Chrs'. Pagination occurs occasionally. The book has been used from both ends; several pages are blank. About one third into the book is a folded-over page inscribed '1933'. A few additional pages of notes have been glued onto original pages. One photograph (attached to a page headed 'Spirals') is included.
ICN-UCLA Winter Symposium on 'Molecular and Cellular Biology', 14-16 March, 1975, USA. Spanish Microbiology Congress, 1975. DH was due to speak at the conference but cancelled the trip for political reasons as a protest against executions in Spain.
Project on field beans 1975, 1979-1982; ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas) conferences (1976-79); correspondence on beans, lentils, breeding, pests, trials and project proposals; list of bean collections (374) c 1977-9.
ICARDA newsletters 1979-83, IFAD/ICARDA Nile Valley faba bean project: reports etc. (1979-83), Faba Bean Cookbook by Lorna Hawtin (ICARDA 1981), booklet on legume improvement programme 19798-80.
4 b&w photographs of Hydrangea from envelope labelled 'Hydrangea photos, varigated types, & some micro-photos': 1. Flowering Hydrangea plants growing in a glasshouse, no date. 2.-4. Microscopic photograph (x3) of cells, no date.
Contents of two files which are described separately.
; Author: Royal Horticultural Society; Publication Place: London; Publisher: Royal Horticultural Society
Correspondence re various topics, including the Genetical Society, dimorphism, Xylotrupes and a debate in 'The Times' about 'mental defectives'.