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Large volume used for recording plant-breeding experiments. Contains pencil notes: entries in the hands of Bateson and his colleagues. Sketches sometimes accompany the notes. Parts of the book are in the form of a log; other entries list seeds or seedlings received. Foliated '1-158'; not all pages used. An index to the contents is at the front (before the foliated pages begin). 26 letters to Bateson, dated 1913-1925, are pasted into the volume in various places. (4217-4245). Many of the correspondents appear to have sent seeds to Bateson for cultivation. Some further pages of notes, photographs and, occasionally, printed matter are also found pasted in.

Brief correspondence with Sir Daniel Hall re plans for future research, and staff, equipment etc required.

Correspondence re financial assistance given by the John Innes Horticultural Institution to R.C. Knight for his proposed research visit to the USA in 1923; correspondence arising from Knight's trip.

Manuscript notes in Bateson's hand. The first page of a set is usually headed with the lecture number, term and year. These headings have been reproduced in the following descriptions. The lectures appear to relate to aspects of discontinuous variation, though the precise topic is often unclear. Some of these sets are obviously incomplete.

One page of notes on 'Gonioctena'.

3pp notes. The following note is near the top of the first page: 'Deductions from cases of discontinuity in overlaps'.

3pp notes.

One syllabus is for lectures on the 'Practical Study of Evolution', October and Lent terms, 1899-1900 (2 copies); the other is for a course of six lectures on 'The Facts of Heredity', given at University College London in October and November 1905 (part of the College's lecture series named 'Advanced Lectures in Botany'). This material was found together. 2nd copy of 'Practical Study of Evolution' found in archive room (12/2024)