Accession No

4551

Brief Description

catalogue to the Cambridge Botany School’s collection of diagrams and wall charts, English, 1967

Origin

Cambridge; England

Maker

Sell, Peter D. [”PDS”, herbarium curator]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1967

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

1967

Material

paper; card; cloth

Dimensions

235mm wide, 285mm tall

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred by the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘CATALOGUE
OF
DIAGRAMS’ (white paint on front cover; also down spine)
‘CATALOGUE OF DIAGRAMS
in the
BOTANY SCHOOL.

CAMBRIDGE
1967.’ (typed, front page)

Description Notes

Catalogue to the Cambridge Botany School’s collection of diagrams / wall charts, English, 1967.

Typed pages (not numbered, but about 6mm thick) are bound in a blue ‘Brampton’s patent instantaneous binder - warranted’ (see inside front cover).
Front page is title page.
Next page is ‘NOTES’ - explaining what to do if diagrams need repairing, or if the catalogue needs amending. Also gives locations of copies of the catalogue (with Prof. West, Mr. Sell (herbarium), the Quaternary dept, Mrs. Dalton (drawing office), and in the diagram cupboard).
The catalogue itself is divided into 25 subject areas A-Y, within which, the diagrams are listed numerically. The number of diagrams per subject area varies from 18 (in D and E) to 120 (in X). Each entry gives the diagram number, its title or subject matter, and (if known) its maker or artist (this column isn’t labelled, but in the case of published diagrams, the artist’s name is given).
The first five pages (i-v) are a subject index, matching subjects to letter groups; so Algae are ‘L’, while Bacteria are ‘M’ and Chlorophyll is ‘J’, etc.
Last 10 pages are an index to the family and genera names of the plants illustrated in the diagrams.
Front page, and front protective card have the Botany school stamp on them. The one on the card has a pencilled date ‘5/3/91’. The front card also has ‘PDS’ in ink at the top right corner.

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