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Notebooks, correspondence, files, descriptions of seedlings, slides, photographs and card indexes, on fruit breeding and genetics (especially apple, also pear, plum, cherry), resistance to scab and mildew in apple, and on Streptocarpus and other ornamental plants.

Correspondence relating to all areas of AG Brown's work, including as Curator (1966-1970) Items within each file are arranged in reverse chronological order

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

Holograph manuscript: 'A Theory of Structural Changes in Chromosomes', by J B S Haldane, 25pp., includes a rough illustration for 'My Freind Mr Leakey' by J B S Haldane, Cresset Press, London, 1937.

Sir Alfred Daniel Hall: correspondence and research (mainly about Tulips): photographs, manuscripts and proof papers, notes, notebooks, correspondence, pressed petals, drawings and paintings.

Booklet: 'Professor Anne E Osbourn 2023, The Novozymes Prize', novo nordisk fonden, Denmark, 2023.

Correspondence and forms, photographs re grant and surrender of plant variety rights for John Innes fruit and vegetable varieties. NORLEG publications (legume and pea research)

The notes and correspondence of Arthur Ernest Watkins regarding the wheat collection gathered from all around the world in the 1920s and 30s for the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge (now held at the John Innes Centre). Also includes files and letters from the 1970s-90s belonging to later curators of the seed collection, Victor Chapman, Terry Miller and Steve Reader. Includes sowing notes and keys to classifications.

The John Innes Centre Oral History collection contains original audio recordings on a variety of media, including open reel, audio cassettes and digital. Most of the early recordings have been digitised by the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) and are available to listen to by contacting the NRO (see AUD/1). The JIC also hold other digital recordings connected to JIC history including interviews recorded with JIC scientists and staff as part of the JIF Oral History project started in 2019 (see AUD/2).

Booklet: John Innes Institute, Rose Collection, by J. Nicol and R. W. Boardman.