3 x hand-coloured photographs of Primula Hybrid/Chimeras: 1. Hand-coloured photograph of flowering plant in pot, pot labelled 244/33 with plant, flowers coloured dark reds, pinks and white, back inscribed 'Chimera, beetle shoot one side, 30-1-33'. 2. Hand-coloured photograph of flowering plant in pot, some flowers hand coloured pink, back inscribed 'Chimera (diploid), Beetle,palm, magenta, red stigma, stellate. Flowers a centre spike half magenta, half blue. Blue half has smaller petals. Side spike has flowers all blue with short stamens. Blue flowers have small outside petals on back of tube', '330/37', dated 12.2.37. 3. Hand-coloured photograph of plant in pot, some flowers hand coloured dark pink, back inscribed 'Chimera (Diploid), etc., '330/37', dated 12.2.37.
Primulas: Primrose (Yellow): Primula kewensis. For research on diploid and tetraploid hybrids in Primula. Originals of Illustrations for colour plates in W C F Newton & Caroline Pellew, 'Primula kewensis and its derivatives', Journal of Genetics, vol XX no 3 (Jan 1929), pp 405-67 1. Card with 8 individual paintings of yellow primula (glued onto card) depicting leaves and flowers at different angles/stages of development. Inscribed in pencil with a numbering system and 'figs. 14-19', possibly related to a publication. Back inscribed 'Plate III'. 2. Card with 8 individual paintings of yellow primula (glued onto card) depicting leaves and flowers at different angles/stages of development. Inscribed in pencil with a numbering system, possibly related to a publication. Back inscribed 'Plate II'. Illustrations for colour plates for: W C F Newton & Caroline Pellew, 'Primula kewensis and its derivatives', Journal of Genetics, vol XX no 3 (Jan 1929), pp 405-67 3. Individual paintings x3 painted on small pieces of white card: depicting: a. whole plant of Primula kewensis? b. a single leaf c. 4 x individual petals of Primula verticillata (donated by Peter Matthews). a. and b. show signs of having been glued to card. These are from plate XI for the same publication (above), figs. 3 and 4
Hand-painted colour chart: squares of colour in shades of white, pink, mauve and red for Primula obconica, dated Sep 1922. Photograph (b&w) of rows of Primula obconica, with number labels corresponding to colour chart, dated Sep 1922.
Individual single flower heads (x 14) painted in watercolour in various shades of white/pink/red/mauve on square pieces of card (approx 10 x 10 cm) Cat. description: 15 individual watercolours, flowers of P. Sinensis (back views), each enlarged x1.5 [Source: Brian Harrison, 27 June 1983] 1 missing (Feb 2024) See Genetics, Vol 13., issue 2., Aug 1923, pp 219-253.
3 photographs: 2 identical of 7 single flowers, 1 hand-coloured (white/pink) labelled DD/Dd, 1 of 3 single flowers, hand-coloured (pale yellow) labeled VJDE/VJde/vjdE No cat. ref. (possibly from uncatalogued box 7.2)
Paintings and photographs
Offprints and pages from newspapers, some photocopies. Those in A.10-A.14 cover social, scientific, technological, cultural and political topics; those in A.15 relate to the Soviet Union. None of the articles are authored by Darlington. At A.10 is an article from 'Monthly Science News', 1943, which refers to Darlington's work on the thornless blackberry.
Owned by Beatrice Bateson, apparently a Christmas gift, as indicated by the manuscript note on the cover.