files and notebooks: notes on selections
Files and notebooks: lists of crosses, field notes on seedlings and families indicating initial selections, discards, flowering date, notes on fruit, etc.
Boyes' records of Cambridge selections at Kingsley. Especially re the later selections - X and C series.
Lists and notes on seedlings, mainly by location/date. First two include list of surviving seedlings from crosses 1928/30-1946.
Records predominantly of D Boyes' strawberry breeding programme at Cambridge. Also a small amount of material on the initial work of Biffen and of Charles Wright (Deputy Director of Plant Breeding Station)
Following her husband's death, Beatrice Bateson conducted much business with Cambridge University Press, both in connection with William Bateson's works and her 1928 memoir of him, 'William Bateson, Naturalist...'.
5 paintings and 1 hand-coloured photograph: 1. Painting of Campanula flower in light purple (side view) showing flower and part of stem, inscribed 'mauve 24-25, 9/14, Aug 1920'. 2. Painting of Campanula flower in dark speckled pink/red (side view) showing flower and part of stem, inscribed 'July 1920 (pathological)'. 3. and 4. Painting and a hand-coloured photograph of Camanula flower (painting copied from photograph), both dated July 1926. 5. Painting of Campanula flower in deep purple (side view) showing flower and part of stem, inscribed 'dk blue, 1923, violet 24-25', signed 'HCO'. 6. Painting of 3 Campanula flowers in white, deep purple and pink (side view) showing flowers and part of stem, inscribed '11/9, 13/19, purple 24-25, 1/19, signed 'HCO'.