4 framed botanical illustrations, prints from nineteenth century botanical magazines depicting Crocuses, Amaryllis or Nerine, Alstroemeria chorillensis and Alstroemeria errembaultii, formerly hanging in the Library foyer. Framed by J Hill Picture Framers, Holt.
Crocus pulchellus, odorus, v. longiflorus, odorus v. melilensis, Thomasiansus, Pallasianus, Carlwrightianus, artist W. Herbert, engraver G. Barclay. Plate 211 from John Lindley and Robert Sweet, Ornamental flower garden and shrubbery. Vol 3, 1854.
Alstroemeria chorillensis. Artist Miss Sarah Drake? Engraver G. Barclay, Plate 186 in Lindley and Sweet (see above, same volume). Alstroemeria is also known as Peruvian Lily.
'Cantab' file:notes for Durum
Includes correspondence with Imperial College (on exchange of ancestor seeds, results of Host-range tests with Anguina tritici with chart and illustrations), Nara University, Japan, (sharonensis chromosome), Munich (mildew resistance, wheat/rye crosses, Holdfast/King II, substitution lines), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (aneuploidy, Chinese Spring10/13), Afghanistan (chromosome numbers for Aegilops), Cereal Genetics Research Unit, Columbia (dimonotelosomics, 2A substitution lines, adherence), University of Calgary, Canada (from B C Sharman), University of Manitoba, Canada (Chinese Spring, wheat and rye crosses), Centro de Biologia, Portugal ( Wanda S Viegas: PhD, Chinese Spring), PBIC (from the Director on visit to Moscow, talks with Tsitsin, seed from Moscow Botanic Garden- wheat and Elymus hybrids), The University of Dundee (Dr T H Nicolson, Triticum and Aegilops), University College, Bangor ( the Nepal expedition 1971- description, lists of wheat accessions, institutions receiving seed, crop collections), Memo on Mycenaean documents, deciphering Linear B, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand (Pusa 4, glume fertility), University of Sydney (Compair, rust resistance from Aeg. comosa)
Index of wheat stocks, key to amphidiploid collection 1953-54, classification of hexaplopid and tetraploid wheats, evolution of polypoid wheats
Reprints of mainly Watkins' articles from the Journal of Genetics, 1924-1962, a collection of articles from Japanese journals, 1951-1962 and other miscellaneous reprints, most with 'A E Watkins' inscribed on top right.
'Plant Breeding in the Soviet Union', Imperial Bureaux of Plant Genetics, Cambridge and Aberystwyth 1933 'Origin of Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics' by M Demerec, reprinted from the Journal of Bacteriology, Vol 56 (1948) 'Eight International Congress of Genetics' by M Demerec reprinted from Science, Vol 148 (1948) 'Are Soybeans Here to Stay?', reprint from Minnisota Farm and Home Science (1949) 'The Svalof Plant Breeding Station' by H K Hayes, reprint from the Journal of Heredity, Vol XL (1949) 'The Identification and Distribution of the British Watercress Species' by H W Howard and A G Lyon, reprinted from the Watsonia, Vol I, Part IV (1950) 'The Influence of Food Plants on Social Structure', reprint from The Advancement of Science, No 26 (1950) 'Standardized Plant Names', Bulletin No. 272, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, Melbourne 1953 'Behaviour of Squash Chimeras' by J M Capinpin, V D Rodriguez and J G Odejar, from The Philippine Agriculturist, Vol XXXVII (1953) 'The Aneuploids of Common Wheat' by E R Sears (photocopy), from Research Bulletin 572, University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station (1954) 'Chromosome pairing in hybrids between Aegilops sharonensis and some species of Aegilops and Triticum' by Masatake Tanaka, reprint from Wheat Information Service No. 2 (1955) 'Crested Wheatgrass Complex' by P Sarkar, reprint from the Canadian Journal of Botany 34 (1956) 'After Effects of Ionizing Radiation in Barley' by Jack D Adams and R A Nilan, reprint from Radiation Research, Vol 8 (1958) 'Pachytene Chromosome Analysis in Barley', by Joyce Blickenstaff and Patricia Sarvella, reprint from International Congress of Genetics, Proceedings, Vol II, nd, c 1950s 'Nuclear Radiation in Food and Agriculture', W Ralph Singleton (ed), reprint from Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol 33 (1958) 'Analysis of Barley Pachytene Chromosomes' by P Sarvella, J Blickenstaff Holmgreen and R A Nilan in The Nucleus, Vol I (1958) 'After Effects of Ionizing Radiation in Barley III.', by R A Nilan, in Northwest Science, Vol 32 (1958) 'The Linnean, Wheat Taxonomy: The legacy of John Percival', The Linnean Society of London, Special Issue No 3 (2001) 'The Watkins Collection of landrace-derived wheats', (photocopy) by T E Miller, M J Ambrose amd S M Reader, in Wheat Taxonomy: The Legacy of John Percival, from The Linnean Society of London, Special Issue No 3 (2001)
The John Innes Society is an educational and recreational club for staff at the John Innes Centre organising the bar, clubs, recreational and sports facilities and activities on site.