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- 1940-1951 (Creation)
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Extent: 1 folder
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Notes and charts on sowing and keys to wheat classification ('Cantab' files): 1. Notes and charts on wheat from India (classified V1/, V2/ etc ) giving collection and sample numbers and province, nd. 2. Italian wheat; Vulgates, Durums and Abyssinian, sown 1947. 3. Greenhouse sowing, spring 1943, 'V series with four grains'. 4. Italian wheat, spring 1940-autumn 1941, series D, T and V. 5. Notes on V series. 6. American wheats, V and D series. 7. List of items wrongly classified/placed. 8. Charts describing wheat collection; 'Classification of Hexaploid Wheats', showing awn, glume and grain type and colour and card no. 9. Keys to Durum classes D1-D50 (corresponding to T1-T50) and V1-V58 (S1-58). 10. index cards on wheat samples from Tibet and Nepal sent by the Natural History Museum (George Taylor), grown 1951. Some pages written on back of typed notes on cytology and old letters crossed out.