Notebooks: handwritten science notes, experiments and drawings by Roy Markham
Box of VRU correspondence mainly with Roy Markham
Material relating to Roy Markham's work with various scientific journals: correspondence about publishing reviews, articles and symposium talks, (his own and others), advice, proof reading etc., includes some manuscripts and reprints. He was on the editorial board of numerous journals as well as contributing his own articles for publication.
Royal Agricultural Society of England: correspondence, publicity material, annual report and notes
Copies of letters, chiefly from Bateson, to Directors etc of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Most of the letters not by Bateson are from staff and Council members of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, including E.J. Allard, D.M. Cayley and B.T. Rumble. A list of John Innes Horticultural Institution correspondents is at the front. The correspondence has been kept in the order in which found.
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Hand-list, Tender Monocots, 2nd edition, 1915, printed by Darling & Son, Bacon Street, E.
Copies of reports, notes and papers circulated for meetings, with correspondence, relating to a programme of vegetable seed trials. Some papers have been annotated by Bateson.
Photocopied pages from 'Gardeners' Chronicle' containing reports on lectures from 1912.
The correspondence covers various plant-breeding trials and experiments, including those on primula, mangel and calceolarias, and related matters. The correspondents include Arthur W. Sutton and Leonard G. Sutton.