Annotated summaries of letters to colleagues by the New Zealand botanist Leonard Cockayne-2

摘要

Seventy holograph letters from Leonard Cockayne to colleagues in New Zealand and overseas have been summarised and annotated. The latter correspondents are J. D. Hooker (3 letters, 1904#x2013;19ll), W. T. Thiselton-Dyer (3 letters, 1899#x2013;1904), W. B. Hemsley (6 letters, 1902#x2013;1914), D. Prain (29 letters, 1906#x2013;1921), A. W. Hill (19 letters, 1923#x2013;1928), W. L. Jepson (4letters, 1900#x2013;1922 and 1letter from Jepson to Cockayne, 1911), and E. C. Jeffrey (I letter in 1929), and the former are H. G. Ell (1 letter in 1912), Mrs B. S. Halcombe (l letter in 1925) and J. S. Yeates (3 letters, 1926#x2013;1927). Also included are 4 typescript letters from Hill to Cockayne, and a congratulatory letter and cable relating to Cockayne's award ofthe Darwin Medal. Three additional holograph letters are included: C. E. Foweraker to Prain, Prain to Hill, and H. H. Allan to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Of particular interest are the letters from Cockayne to three Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, and Hill). Explanatory notes are given after each group of letters.