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; Author: Butler, Samuel; Publication Place: London

; Author: Smart, Christopher; Publication Place: Melbourne; Publisher: Hawthorn

South African Native Seeds, Bulbs and Succulent Plants Grown by K C Stanford, Bloem Erf. Stellenbosch, South Africa

2 letters about ordering and modifying a greenhouse/glasshouse, 16-17 Jan 1956 To Dr Bingefors, Sveriges University, Sweden from J M Welbank regarding testing/infecting seeds for resistance, 27 March 1957 To DB from J M Welbank about bean plants/flowers, 27 May 1957 To DB (at NIAB, Headley Hall) from the Welsh Breeding Station about arrival of an order, 16 Oct 1957 Letter from the Welsh Plant Breeding Station and details about the A.R.C Plant Breeders' Conference, Aberystwyth, 2-3 July 1958. To DB from B? J Deverall (Imperial College) about seeds for testing, 7 Sep 1959 Postcard from National Vegetable Research Station on receipt of seed, 12 July 1960 Contract of Employment for DB at the PBI, 2 Oct 1964 with terms and conditions, salary, pension etc. Bundle of letters about DB's articles in journals, for reprints, 1968. To DB from PBI Governing Body: invitation to opening of Douglas Bell Building on 9 July 1970 Programme: Federation of British Plant Pathologists, Plant Pathology Field day, Rothamsted Experimental Station, 16 June 1971 PBI Internal Memorandum about next of kin, 19 May 1976 To Prof. H W Woolhouse from Ralph Riley, 31 July 1986, concerning privatization of the PBI Photograph c 1956 of a group of men on a farm from J W Dent with note and reprint 'King's College' from Agriculture 1956, 63, 183-6 The British Council Course No 919 leaflet 'Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement, Cambridge 21 June - 4 July 1959 Tick Bean Scale A4 for use with Marconi Moisture Meter with instructions Smallpox vaccination application form, 1962 Note from Cambridge Beekeepers Association Notes: handwritten notes on hybrid vigour open pollinated: hybrids, inbreds and control, 1956, NIAB seed trials 1950-1956 chart, sowing notes, 1959, 'jobs after Xmas 1958' and other misc. Newspaper clippings about broad beans 1951-1996

Hardback notebook entitled 'Sowing Book 1', 'Crossing Book, Karen Purdie', inside flap inscribed 'Karen Purdie I.P.S.R Cereals Dept. (cytogenetics)...1989'. Contains sowing notes in columns with notes on 'Emasc.' date, cross, female parent, male parent, poll[ination] date and comments. Data for winter sowing 1989, summer crossing 1990, winter crossing 1990 and summer crossing 1991. Varieties include Brigand, Brimstone, Brock, Tetraploid Rye, Pettius rye, Flanders, Galahad, Hornet, Norin, Chinese Spring, Mercia, Langdon and Stewart.

Hardback notebook entitled 'Sowing Book 1','Sowings Book', 'Karen/Ian'. Contains sowing notes in columns with notes on plants, germ[ination], count and comments. Data for summer 1989, summer 1990, winter 1991, summer 1991, winter 1990-91 and summer 1992. Varieties used include April Bearded, Berssee, Brigand, Brimstone, Brock, Cando, Chris, Creso, Chinese Spring, Flanders, Grana, Hornet, Karum, Langdan, Marzak, Mexicale, Mono, Nap B, Neodar, Novin, Petkus, Stewart, Thin Bess and T durum..

Hardback notebook entitled 'Sowings Book 2'. Contains sowing notes in columns with notes on plants, germination, count and comments. Data for Karum x T. ponticum, Chinese Spring x T. intermedium (ando thers), Cando x T ponticum, Neodar, Stewart and Marzek x Thin Bess etc.

3 Sowing Books (A5) from the JIC Cereals Department, Cambridge Laboratory (cytogenetics), belonging to Karen Purdie and Ian (King?). Data regarding the sowing and crossing of cereals (wheat and rye) for cytogenetic research. Probably part of the project run by I P King and T E Miller researching 'the production of stable wheat/alien chromosome addition lines for potential crop production' (JIC Annual Report 1991, p74).

Folder entitled 'Aegilops & Italian' ('Cantab' file ): 1. List/chart entitled 'Parents Listed in 'Variation of the Awn"', showing Hexaploid and Letaploid? species, listing bearded, lipped, beardless, hooded etc, collection nos (V and F), c1947. 2. Notes on 1A1-5A1 and 1B1-4B1 types of wheat. 3.Notes on Reg arassa. 4. Notes on Aegilops. 5. Notes on Species Collection (titium, haynaldia, secale, amplidiploids, aegilops, agropyron). Student series sowing notes, friticum & aegilops, aegilops collection 1948. 6. Five pages of hand illustrated notes on aegilops c 1950. 7. Aegilops collection sowing lists/notes 1946-1949. 8.Sowing notes 1955. n9. Sowing notes 1950-51. 10. Key to sowing of T. mococcum 1951-52 & cage plan by V Chapman. 11. Agopyson bed notes/lists/graphs 1949-51. 12. Notes on M, T & A series 1945-50, monocucums 1-13 & aegilupoides 1-20.