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Includes checklists and recommendations for those attending the expedition, information about health issues, a copy of a contract for Harold Woolhouse, logistical information, copy of a preliminary report, 1977, a report on field reconnaisance undertaken in 1976, correspondence, notes re an enviromental studies group, photocopy of an article Hydrochemistry and Geology in the Brazilian Amazon region by Harold Sioli, equipment lists, information on a pre expedition training weekend at Bordon, Hampshire, correspondence and papers re the aftermath of the expedition, finances, dispersal of equipment, artcile The tropical rainforest in the Amazonas region of Columbia by Charles Phillips, prospectus for the expedition describing origins of the project, 1977, Focus On expedition newsletters, issues 2 and 3, Oct-Dec 1976, copy letter by Charles HR Hutchinson applying for a place on the expedition, 8 Feb 1976, article Ecological aspects of development among Piaroa and Guahibo Indians of the upper Orinoco Basing, Michael J Eden, 1977, copy of notebook describing index system used, diagrams, maps, notes

Includes notebooks, maps with information about vegetation, lecture notes, photographs, draft report on expedition, articles 'African Vegetation', R.W.J Keay, 'Ecological effects of wetland utilization in Africa' and 'The primary productivity of African wetlands, with particular reference to the Okavango Delta', 'The Nile, biology of an ancient river', Keith Thompson, Carte des sols et de la vegetation du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, G. Yangambi, Notice explicative de la carte des sols et de la vegetation, 1954, Carte des regions climatique du Congo Belge, 1950, post expedition correspondence re findings and report much of it with Dr Peter Shewry and Keith Thompson who along with Prof Woolhouse carried out the botonical work on the expedition and Dr F.C Roger, correspondence re a symposium on the results of the expedition, critique of some elements of the expedition, minutes of the Scientific Exploration Society AGM and annual report, 13 May 1975, Scientific Exploration Society newsletters, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep 1975, copy report on the botanical work of the Zaire River Expedition with rough draft and comments, planning instruction for the expedition and paper outlining scientific objectives of the project, 1973

Brenhilda Schafer: correspondence, notes, photographs, drawings, watercolours (mainly on research on Aquilegia) and two notebooks of comic verse. Mostly written during her post as secretary and librarian for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Institute, Merton 1926 -1942 with some additional correspondence and writing while working for BX Plastics (including as editor of the BXL Review, Xylonite Magazine) and during retirement. Brenhilda Schafer (11.4.1900 - 1973), BSc., (Lond) Birkbeck College: librarian, registrar and secretary for Sir Daniel Hall at the John Innes Centre 1926 - 1942. While at John Innes she worked on the genetics of Aquilegia and Aconitum. Published articles: Anderson, E and Schafer, B (1931) 'Species hybrids in Aquilegia' in Ann.Bot, 639-46, Anderson, Edgar and Schafer, B (1933) 'Vicinism in Aquilegia vulgaris' in Amer.Nat.67, 190-2, Schafer, B (1934) 'Uniformity in bibliographic particulars' in Nature, Lond, 133, 380., Schafer, B and La Cour (1934) 'A chromosome survey of Aconitum. I.' in Ann.Bot, 48, 693-713. From 1942 she worked for BX Plastics.

European Wheat Aneuploid Cooperative (EWAC) Conference in Cambridge, July 1979: photograph of attendees with corresponding list of names, workshop schedule, attendee's accommodation requirements forms. Photograph/attendees: Victor Chapman (PBI), Nicolás Jouve, Benito Giorgi, Stevan Petrovi?, Wonter Lange, Gurt Kleijer, Dieter Mettin, József Sutka, Tamas Lelley, Danuta Otlowska, Olga I Maystrenko, Beryl Parker (PBI), Francoise Dosba, Colin Law (PBI), Jane Hutchinson (PBI), Shashi Netzle, Yvonne Cauderon, Linda Holt (PBI), Eric Simpson (PBI), Terry Miller (PBI), Tony Worland (PBI), Steve Reader (PBI), John Snape (PBI).

Newslwtter No. 35, Suimmer 1997

Papers of Kenneth Manley Smith: lecture notes and experiment books.

Sydney Dickinson's plant pathology offprints, including copies presented to and/or signed by Rowland H Biffen (1874-1949). Many signed 'with compliments of the author'.

Holograph manuscript: 'A Theory of Chromosomal Rearrangements' by J B S Haldane, 16 pp.

Artwork, photographs, biographical and misc. material. Paintings (watercolour, gouache), hand-coloured photographs and photographs produced in collaboration with scientists at the JI to illustrate colours and genetic variation.