Item AW/2/1/5 - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Extent: 1 folder

Letter with duplicates from Watkins to be sent to numerous recipients outlining his wheat collection and research activities and requesting varieties resistant to Puccinia graminis, 1929; letter from Watkins (for duplicate) outlining objectives of collection and advice on collection practices. Letter from Watkins to Sir Edward Crowe outlining the objectives of the wheat collection including to collect as many wheat varieties as possible from around the world to ascertain the present global distribution of wheat and the distribution before 'modern interference', for scientific research, to improve wheat for English conditions and for trialling varieties in the 'colonies and dependences', with a summary of methods and work done so far, 1928. Alleged ancient wheat reproduced from an excavated tomb in India - Ummedpur "Mummy" wheat from Sind incl. a copy of an article from the Times c. 1933 and Watkin's reply. P S Hudson (School of Agriculture, Cambridge): list of Experiment Stations. China: T H Shen (Ministry of Industries, Nanking) with a list of 430 wheat varieties received from Watkins and request to list botanical varieties and sub-species (1935-6). U.S.S.S.R Institute of Plant Industry (N Vavilov and Prof. C Flacksberger ) about exchanges of samples, Indian wheats to Russia and receiving their collection of Italian, Algerian and Armenian wheat, information on numbering system, list of Indian wheats (packet and sample numbers), list of wheats sent to Flacksberger, letter from N I Sharapov (Lenin Acadamy), Dontelio Kostoff (Moscow). Egypt: Ministry of Agriculture on a Kenyan wheat resistant to black stem rust, letter from Botanical Section, Giza. Letter from J Phillip on rust resistance results, 1938. Sudan: Agric. and Forests Dept. Plant Breeding Section, Khartoum, Sudan on wheat samples sent and collecting more. India: letter from Watkins on collection objectives, guidance and instructions for collecting for Indian wheats, letters from F J F Shaw (Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, India) to Sir Rowland Biffen on Indian wheats, Pusa wheat and research, R S L Jai Chand Luthra (Punjab Agricultural College) United States: (Dept. of Agriculture) John H Parker in reply to Watkin's request for testing wheats for Puccinia graminus (black stem rust) - Parker declines as Kansas not suitable and suggests forwarding to H B Humphrey, senior pathologist in charge of cereal rust investigations, letter from H B Humphrey agreeing to testing and asking for seed samples to sow in their nursery in Arizona, 1929. Canada: from C H Goulden (Agric. Dept.): rust resistance, P. graminis, Russian varieties, 1929. Japan (Prof. H Kihara); seeds D50/153, from Seisten called Shutur Dandan. Australia: universities of Melbourne and Sydney, 1929, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Canberra, 1930 and the Department for Agriculture, Sydney, 1939: Australian wheats, growing wheat samples, testing for stem rust and other 'foot rots' resistance, Puccinia grammis, new Afghanistan and Abyssinian wheats. New Zealand: N.Z. letter from the Wheat Research Institute about the origins of solid-straw and solid-straw-Tuscan wheat, 1930. Brief letters from Sicily, France, Cyprus, Iraq, Palestine.