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Principally household and personal expenditure.

Correspondence to Bateson from various correspondents, including E. Nettleship. This correspondence had been filed separately from that in D.51-D.57.

Included is the following material: at D.145: 2pp manuscript report on a breeding experiment, 1896 (not by Bateson); at D.147: 3 photographs of poultry; poultry feathers in small envelopes (labelled in Bateson's hand); a few manuscript notes and printed matter.

Various matters relating to the work and development of the Institution are covered: suggested lines of research, building improvements, equipment and funding etc. Sir David Prain is the principal correspondent. Included are manuscript notes by Bateson and others.

Various correspondence to Bateson relating to variations in ducks and swans; 6pp notes in Bateson's hand, mostly bibliographical. Inserted into one letter is a small piece of paper with further notes in Bateson's hand.

Included are two drafts of letters by Bateson. There is also a typescript list, at the beginning, by [?Elisabeth Schiemann], of some of these letters.

Subjects include tomatoes; ms of Spangelo & Watkins paper on apple breeding for 1967 World Exhibition, Montreal; AG Brown's membership of Herts. County Council Horticultural Sub Committee (minutes etc.). Correspondence re award of Jones Bateman cup 1961 and MBE, 1971. Pear Apple hybrid: photocopy presscuttings 1954. Short report by AG Brown for RHS Journal [vol. 96, 1971] on new JI variety Columnea 'Fire Dragon'.

General Catalogue of Roses, Fruit Trees, Conifers, Flowering Trees, Forest Trees, Vines, Figs and Climbers, Season 1924 -25, H Lane & Son, The Nurseries, Berkhamsted