6pp notes in Bateson's hand.
Birthday presentation card made for Osterstock for his 21st birthday: faux leather card wallet, (29.5 x 24.5 cm) with an embroidered 'bookmark' sown onto a strip of burgundy coloured silk.: Front embossed 'Herbert Charles Osterstock 1897'' in gold lettering. Opens like a card, left side contains cream coloured silky material, right side a printed paper/card in the style of a certificate with coloured flowery border. This is in the style of a certificate with a red 'seal' and a message written in calligraphic style in black ink and signed by his 'fellow cricketers and lithographers'. The text reads: 'August 4th 1897. Presented to Herbert Osterstock. We your fellow cricketers and lithographers beg to tender you on the auspicious occasion of your arriving at man's estate, our very best wishes for your welfare and hope that your "lenses" may never grow weaker, your "day plates" fog or your cinematograph films frill. During the time you have been amongst us your nature has "developed" by a strong solution of natural ability combined with tenacity, has become "fixed" by perseverance and "toned" by good nature and generosity. It is therefore with the greatest pleasure we present you with this testimonial. In witness whereof we hereunto affix our hands and seal'. Signed by 'Keiger', 'Sandow', 'Jew', 'Press-Pusher', Richardson', 'Mumps', 'Sandy', 'Ice Cream Man' and 'Goggles'.
Black & white photograph 'Double Murillo Tulip with Sport Keizerkroon' (same as HCO/1/1/2/1/5), signed HCO.
As hand-coloured version (HCO/1/1/2/1/2)
As hand-coloured version (HCO/1/1/2/1/2)
Black and white photograph of a single murillo tulip (same as HCO/1/1/2/1/7)
Postcard of Dr Dan Lewis in a corn field, nd Postcard of Dr G.H Beale inspecting plants in a field, nd Postcard of the John Innes cricket team playing a match, 4 Jun 1937 Postcard of staff eating corn on the cob in the canteen, nd Postcards of Mr H.C Osterstock, John Innes artist/photographer, nd Shot of building work at Bayford Green, Dec 1948 Shots of the interior of an unidentified greenhouse, c1945 Shot of the John Innes library staff in the library, Oct 1945 (most staff named) Various group photographs of staff, unidentified, c1945 Shot of a constant temperature cabinet designed by H. Osterstock and used by Dan Lewis from late 1930s to 1945 for Oenothera work at Merton Park. The experiment being shown is using mustard gas to check for Mutagenesis in cherry, c1940 Shot of Bayfordbury Park, Hertfordshire, c1950 Shot of H.J Muller at Merton, 31 Oct 1945 Shot of Dan Lewis sampling cherry flowers with Miss Irena Modlibowska at Merton Park in the mid 1940s Shot of Hugh Rogers, Deputy Director of the Plant Breeding Institute with Mark Carlisle, Secretary of State for Education and Science, c1980 Shots of the Genetics and Cytology labs at Merton, 1935 Photocopies of photographs of Norman Simmonds and Brian Harrison, nd
Notes, correspondence, computer data and papers on trials, breeding for resistance etc.
Notes, correspondence, computer data and papers on trials, breeding for resistance etc.