SubSection SD/1/1 - Sydney Dickinson Collection Offprints

Extent: 1 box

Sydney Dickinson's plant pathology offprints, including copies presented to and/or signed by Rowland H Biffen. Dates: 1890- 1905, 1921-1937, 1950-1958. There are 8 signatures of 'R H Biffen': on the front covers of 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London' 1894, 1899, 1901, 1904, 1905 and 1921 and 'Les Mycelium Truffiers Blancs' (1903) and 'Germination de l'Ascospore De La Truffe' (1903). Many others are signed 'with compliments of the author', including by Francis Darwin (1898), Maria Dawson (1899 and 1900) and J Reynolds Green (1894). Letter ? (part, 1 p. no signature) on headed paper 'University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire', 'Cathays Park, Cardiff', no date, c 1929. The typed page gives a synopsis of the paper 'Étude de l'action des rayons X sur le development des plantes' by Mme S Lallemand (1928/29) with an attached offprint. Booklet: Society for General Microbiology Golden Jubilee 1945- 1995 (possibly unrelated).