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Mss Eur F252/18c
- Record Id:
- 040-002291236
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000b1
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- Mss Eur F252/18c
- Title:
- India: Burma, Madras and Hazara
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Diary includes the following:
- Folio 1 verso: photograph of a view on the Irrawaddy above Kyauktongyi (25th January 1927)
- Folio 1 verso: photograph of a Shan cart at Namma, Myitkyina
- Folio 3 recto: photograph of a building at Kungyangon (5th December 1926) and a photograph of a Pagoda at Kyauktongyi (24th January 1927) [both photographs on loose item page]
- Folio 3 verso: photograph of a Pagoda at Katha
- Folio 3a: map showing the Gulf of Martaban and Mouths of the Irrawaddy (to the south) and a route leading north to Myitkyina in Burma [loose item]
- Folio 4 verso: photograph showing a front view of Mandalay Palace
- Folio 5 verso: photograph of from view of Mandalay Palace showing Grand Audience Hall and the Watch Tower on the left
- Folio 5 verso: photograph of the Seven-Fold Roof over the “Centre of the Universe” with Mandalay Hill in the background
- Folio 5a: cutting [loose item] from The Times newspaper, dated 4th March 1927, reporting the birth in India on 24th February 1927 of a son, named James Cunliffe, to the wife of H G Champion
- Folio 6 verso: 4 photographs of riverside views at Shwegu showing (1)Chinese people by the riverside (2) Chinese pot-sellers (3) a Burmese girl and infant and (4) Sampans meeting the ferry (1st February 1927)
- Folio 7 verso: photograph of Chinthays at the foot of Mandalay Hill
- Folio 7 verso: photograph of a (? stone) figure before a Pagoda at Katha
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of the River-Front at Katha
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of a fig tree “completely enveloping a teak of which only a small branch remains” (Kyaur & Tongyi)
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of a building (Hteinmilazan F.R.H)
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of Mingalon Tidal Forest
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of Twante from The Launch
- Folio 10 verso: 3 photographs of the Insein Division showing (1) paddy boat on Bassein Creek (2) Kungyangon Creek and (3) paddy boats on the Twante Canal
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of Hyoongyi-Kyaung (Kungyangon, Insein)
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of Avicennia Officinalis Standards over 2 year coppice of Excoecaria Agallocha
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of a view from the bridge at Kungyangon
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of Broadcast Sowings of Heritiera and Carapa (Mingalon, Chaung)
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of Sampans ‘going up from Kungyangon’
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of Excoecaria coppice among Heritiera (Mingalon, Chaung)
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of 1 year old Carada seedlings Broadcast Sowing (Mingalon, Chaung)
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of a building (Hnokkyo, 16th January 1927)
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of larvae of Attacus Atlas moth on Guava leaf
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of Guava Taungya: Xylia, 12 ft high of 1923 (Htein Milizan, Insein)
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of Guava Taungya: 1923 Xylia (Htein Milizan, Insein)
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of Guava Taungya: 1923 ‘Jack’ 8-12ft high (Htein Milizan, Insein)
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of G S Shirley, Silviculturist, Burma (26th January 1927)
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of teak log rafts at Shwego
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of teak log pond at Rangoon
- Folio 19 verso: photograph of teak log ponds and mills at Rangoon
- Folio 19 verso: photograph showing the loading up of baggage elephants from the windows of “Hmyachaung” (F.R.H.)
- Folio 20 verso: photograph showing the Kyauktongyi Pagoda with a raintree to the left and glass mosaic pillar to the left
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of the Pagoda at Katha
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of Teak tree, 126 ft. high
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of range quarters and Enterolobium “The Rain Tree” (Nyaugbinzin, Tharrawaddy)
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of the Seinkanlan Pagoda
- Folio 22 verso: photograph with the description “Nat Regen. Teak Xylia and Stephegyne in gap made by Y-fellings.” (Mokka 29. Tharrawaddy)
- Folio 23 verso: photograph of timber and bamboo rafts, on the Irrawaddy, Katha
- Folio 23 verso: photograph of the Irrawaddy river bank (Kyauktongyi/Shwegu)
- Folio 24 verso: photograph showing part of the stem of a Platyceras plant
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of transverse marks on teak poles ‘possibly due to wind cracks’
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of Sample Plot 9 of Tharrawaddy Dn. Teak
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of teak stump in ‘old selection fellings’ (Kangyi)
- Folio 26 verso: photograph showing Spatholobus Roxburghii ingrown into a trunk of Dillenia (Kokaung, Myitkyina Dn.)
- Folio 27 verso: 2 photographs with the description ‘Sawing of Kanyin Logs’ (Kokaung)
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of a view across Maymyo Links
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of a village fence and gateway (Pinwe) (with the footnote “Dacoits & Nats are Common”) (8th January 1927)
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of Dipterocarpus Tuberculatus and Shorea Obtusa with description “inferior type Indiang” (Myohla)
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of ‘The Lake,’ Maymyo
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of The Moat, Mandalay
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of The Great Hall of Audience, Mandalay
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of ‘The Clock Tower’
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of ‘King Mindon’s Tomb of Glass Mosaic’
- Folio 32 verso: photograph of Mandalay Palace showing a sample of glass mosaic and steps leading up to an entrance
- Folio 32 verso: photograph of King Mindon’s Tomb
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of a large building with a turret and long lawn in the foreground (Rossendale, Maymo)
- Folio 33 verso: untitled photograph of a building (possibly a place of worship)
- Folio 34 verso: photograph with the description ‘Rides near Maymyo’ showing a track with woodland on both sides
- Folio 34 verso: photograph of “one of the entrances into Mandalay”
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of the Queen’s Palace at Mandalay
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of the Boundary Ride from Moira Vale (Maymyo)
- Folio 36 verso: photograph entitled “Laughing Water” showing two waterfalls surrounded by dense foliage (Maymyo)
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of the Race Course from Star Hill
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of Sagaing from the ferry
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of a typical railway scene (Namma)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of pagodas on a distant rocky hillock (Amarapura)
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of buildings (Kyauktan F.R.H.)
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of a well house at Pinwe (10th January 1927)
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of Thaw Chaung (Kyauktan)
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of a tree trunk with the description ‘Spatholobus (L) and Chonemorpha (R) on Pentacme Suavis’ (Kokaung Myitkyina)
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of a Gmelina tree heavily infested with Loranthus (Kokaung Myitkyina)
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of a seller named Shah Dah (Namma, 16th January 1927)
- Folio 40 verso: unnamed photograph of a woman and child
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of teak log extraction (with the use of an elephant)
- Folio 42 verso: photograph entitled ‘building a house of plaited bamboo’
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of ‘A Fine Aroid’ plant (Kokaung Myitkyina)
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of a group of people weaving at Kachin Village, Kokaung
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of weaving and water being brought in bamboo buckets (Kachin Village, Kokaung)
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of ‘Kachin Village Entrance’ (Kokaung)
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of platforms intended for ‘propitiatory offerings to the Nats’
- Folio 45 verso: two photographs showing weaving operations in Kachin Village (Kokaung Myitkyina)
- Folio 46 verso: photograph of villagers weaving cloth for bag making
- Folio 46 verso: photograph villagers preparing the yarn (with footnote “Note the enormous ear ornaments”)
- Folio 47 verso: photograph of the ‘game scarers platform’ (Kachin Taungya House)
- Folio 47 verso: photograph of a teak plantation showing soil erosion (Bilumyo R.F.)
- Folio 48 verso: 3 photographs of ‘Chinthays’ (sculptures of animals) at Katha
- Folio 49 verso: photograph showing the trunk of a tall tree with the description ‘large Spatholobus on Dipterocarpus Tuberculatus’ (Yinke R.F.)
- Folio 49 verso: photograph with the description ‘E.P.5A Pentacme Suavis Nat. Reg. Thazi’
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of a building (Gyobinaing F.R.H.)
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of ‘Spatholobus festooned between in trees’ (Yinke R.F.)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph taken “in” a forest ‘defoliated by a Lymanttrid larva, the centre tree protected by the Cremastogaster with nest on the bole’ (Yinke R.F.)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of a cart at Hnokkyo
- Folio 52 verso: photograph of Spatholobus on ‘In’ tress (Yinke R.F.)
- Folio 52 verso: photograph of a buffalo cart (Simgaon, Yinke, 19th January 1927)
- Folio 53 verso: photograph with the description ‘Pentacme Suavi,’’ showing a tall tree (Thazi Bhamo Dn.)
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of trees with the description ‘Pentacme Suavis’ (Sampee Plot, Hnokkyo, Bhamo DN.)
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of trees with the description ‘Pentacme Suavis’ (Thazi)
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of teak log rafts at Shwegu
- Folio 55 verso: photograph of pagoda towers at Shwegu
- Folio 55 verso: photograph of palm trees at Shwegu
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of a pagoda tower at Shwegu
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of pots lying on the ground (Shwegu)
- Folio 57 verso: photograph of teak rafts on the Irrawaddy at Shwegu
- Folio 57 verso: photograph of pagoda buildings on Mandalay Hill
- Folio 58 verso: photograph of pagodas at the foot of Mandalay Hill
- Folio 58 verso: photograph of teak rafts and a river steamer at Shwegu
- Folio 59 verso: two photographs of ‘flowered out bamboo clumps’ (Dendrocalamus Hamiltonii) (Bilumyo R.F.)
- Folio 59a: handwritten miscellaneous notes on a ruled sheet of notepaper with heading “Burma 1926/27” [loose item]
- Folio 60 recto: photograph of Eupatorium in teak plantation
- Folio 60 recto: photograph with the description ‘(?)Yo in “In” forest’ showing grassland with woodland in the background (Hnokkyo, 26th January 1927)
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of 1923 Salix plantation with Aroids in the foreground
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of Salix Tetrasperma of 1923
- Folio 61 verso: photograph of the species of tree Hopea Parviflora
- Folio 61 verso: photograph of the species of tree Terminalia Tomentosa
- Folio 62 verso: photograph of a timber slide in Anamalais
- Folio 62 verso: photograph of a pole road
- Folio 63 verso: 3 photographs of the Nilgiri Grass Hills with ‘Shola’ Forest (J.S.M.)
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of a teak plantation (Nilambur)
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of a teak plantation entitled ‘The 1917 Plantation after 1924 Floods’
- Folio 65 verso: photograph of ‘root sucker regeneration of Rosewood, badly browsed by deer’ (1924 Coupe, Anekad R.F., Mercara)
- Folio 66 verso: photograph of an example of the species of tree Acacia Suma by the roadside, Anekad, Coorg
- Folio 67 verso: photograph of a mixed deciduous forest with bamboo cleared and burnt for plantation (1923 plantation, Mt. Stuart, August 1924)
- Folio 67 verso: photograph of rosewood log on forest tramway (Mt. Stuart, Anamalais)
- Folio 68 verso: photograph of the species of plant Dipterocarpus Indicus (Makut)
- Folio 69 verso: photograph of Dipterocarpus Standard ‘with poles of same and Hopea’ (with the notes: ‘shelter wood fellings, Hopea and Leea Sambucina’)
- Folio 69 verso: photograph of plants with the descriptions ‘Dipteroc, Hopea’ and ‘Calophyllum’
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of Hopea saplings freed by ‘O-fellings’ (Makut)
- Folio 70 verso: photograph (showing trees) with the description ‘Vateria 12ft above Buttress in flower’ (Makut)
- Folio 71 verso: photograph of Hopea (Nat Reg.) (Jalsur S. Mangalore Dn.)
- Folio 72 verso: photograph showing a view from Kasaragod (D.B.)
- Folio 73 verso: photograph of a river view at Parapta
- Folio 73 verso: photograph of Hopea in flower (Parapta)
- Folio 74 verso: photograph of a Nilambur teak plantation showing an area failure from floods
- Folio 74 verso: photograph of the Nilambur teak plantation showing the 1854 plantation with natural undergrowth of Trewia, Xylia, Macaranga and “Term. Panic”
- Folio 75 verso: two photographs (of plantations) showing examples of ‘failures in second rotation teak associated with development of swampy conditions’ (with reference: 1849/1920)
- Folio 76 verso: two photographs of trees with the description ‘Swietenia Macrophylla’ (Nilambur)
- Folio 77 verso: photograph of a sample plot of Lagerstroemia Flos-Reginae (Nilambur)
- Folio 77 verso: photograph of trees (Palangode Mahogoany Avenue)
- Folio 78 verso: photograph of a view from Sappal (F.R.H. Chenat Nair)
- Folio 79 verso: photograph of the top of Dhoni V, Chenat-Nair, from Drag-Path (Palghat Dn.), with the footnote ‘Big trees are mostly Eugenia, Ficus and Cullenia’
- Folio 80 verso: photograph showing the capture of an elephant ‘a new capture’ (Anamalai Hills)
- Folio 80 verso: photograph of a westward view from Topslip F.R.H., Anamalais, and a recently burnt 1927 Taungya
- Folio 81 verso: 3 three photographs of elephant catching in Anamalais
- Folio 82 verso: photograph of an Eastward view from Topslip F.R.H., Anamalai Hills
- Folio 82 verso: photograph of a newly captured elephant climbing out of a pit
- Folio 83 verso: photograph of an elephant ‘being prodded out of the jungle’
- Folio 83 verso: photograph of an elephant being roped by Kunkis
- Folio 84 verso: photograph of the Forest Suspension Bridge at Kotamadi
- Folio 84 verso: photograph of elephants between Kunkis on the way to the Corral
- Folio 85 verso: photograph of a view from Kotamady F.R.H. showing an ‘unworked’ evergreen forest (Tinnevelly)
- Folio 86 verso: photograph of palms in an evergreen forest, Ambasamudram
- Folio 86 verso: photograph of the trunk of a teak tree at Telekal
- Folio 87 verso: example of an original Selaginella Inaqualifolia leaf (leaf pressing)
- Folio 88 verso: photograph of a Dysoxylum Binectariferum log sawn in half
- Folio 88 verso: photograph the trunk of a ‘big Acrocarpus at Knapp’s Hut’
- Folio 89 verso: photograph of Frenella Rhomboidea showing a tree stump amid a forest of tall thin stems (Ootacamund)
- Folio 89 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus Globulus plantatations with a 14 year old coppice in the background and 1926 foreground
- Folio 90 verso: two photographs of Eucalyptos Pilularis trees of 1911
- Folio 91 verso: photograph of the shrub Lobelia Excelsa
- Folio 91 verso: photograph of ‘Blue Gum’ trees
- Folio 92 verso: two photographs Eucalyptus Crebra trees (1911)
- Folio 93 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus Propinqua trees
- Folio 94 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus Paniculata trees
- Folio 95 recto: photograph of grass hills of Nilgiris
- Folio 95 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus Acmenoides trees
- Folio 96 recto: photograph of (unnamed) Eucalyptustrees
- Folio 96 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus Eugenioides trees
- Folio 97 verso: photograph of Paeonia Emodi plants in flower (Sharan F.R.H.)
- Folio 99 verso: photograph of the edge of the Kail Forest ‘being destroyed for temporary cultivation’ (Birangali)
- Folio 99 verso: photograph of Kail regeneration under lopped Aesculus (Inderseri)
- Folio 100 verso: photograph of Birangali landslips being started by denudation
- Folio 100 verso: photograph of broad leafed trees killed by lopping (Phalkcot)
- Folio 101 verso: photograph of ridges on a Quercus Semecarpifolia tree ‘presumably caused by sapsuckers’ (Phalkcot)
- Folio 101 verso: photograph showing destruction on high level forest by excessive lopping (Phalkcot)
- Folio 102 verso: photograph of snow-bend of Kail trees on a steep slope (Phalkcot)
- Folio 102 verso: photograph of a Kail tree hacked for torchwood (Birangali)
- Folio 103 verso: photograph of 65 year old Kail crop thinned in 1917 (Birangali)
- Folio 103 verso: photograph Paeonia Emodi plants in flower (Chhatri)
- Folio 104 verso: photograph of shelterwood felling in Kail and Fir, 1926 (Chhatri)
- Folio 104 verso: photograph of Nat. Reg. of Silver Fir as second storey to Kail about 40 years old (Inderseri)
- Folio 105 verso: photograph of the Sungargali Ropeway (Thandiani)
- Folio 105 verso: photograph of Kail Seeding felling in Lehri (Thandiani)
- Folio 106 verso: photograph of snows from Thandiani F.R.H.
- Folio 106 verso: photograph of a view over Abbottabad from Thandiani
- Folio 107 verso: photograph of Clemantis Montana in flower
- Folio 107 verso: photograph of a view of the Kagan Valley looking down from 1 mile above Andhera Bela
- Folio 108 verso: photograph of 130 year old Kail crop on Islang at Narang
- Folio 108 verso: photograph of floating Kail logs down Kagan River at Narang
- Folio 109 verso: photograph of a view up the Kunhar (R.) from Balakot
- Folio 109 verso: photograph of the trunk of a large Silver Fir tree (Mahnsi B., 9TH June 1927)
- Folio 110 verso: photograph of the Kagan V Bridle Path above Paras (26th May 1927)
- Folio 110 verso: photograph of the Paras Bridge
- Folio 111 verso: photograph of a bridge over the Manur River at Mahandri (16th May 1927)
- Folio 111 verso: photograph of Deodar crop on Alluvium (Kumbalban A.)
- Folio 112 verso: photograph of a view on to Nakri from Kumalban D. showing distant mountain peaks (28th May 1927)
- Folio 112 verso: photograph of Andhera Bela camping ground showing a waterfall
- Folio 113 verso: photograph of a view looking down the valley from Narang R.H.
- Folio 113 verso: photograph of a view up the Batel V
- Folio 114 verso: photograph of Kail log extraction (Narang A., 31st May 1927)
- Folio 116 verso: two photographs showing views of Safr-Muluk-Sar mountain area (3rd June 1927)
- Folio 116a: photograph of the Safr-Muluk-Sar mountain area [loose item]
- Folio 117a: untitled photograph showing trees on a steep slope [loose item]
- Folio 118 recto: photograph of a view across the Kagan just above Diwan Bela (5th June 1927)
- Folio 118 verso: photograph of the landslip which caused under-cutting of Malkandi R.H.
- Folio 118 verso: photograph entitled ‘The Ruins’ showing the remains of an unnamed stone building
- Folio 120 verso: photograph of a Kail tree hacked for torchwood (Sharan)
- Folio 120 verso: photograph of Pure Taxus trees (Sharan)
- Folio 121 verso: two photographs of mountain peaks (Musa Ka Mussala) (11th June 1927)
- Folio 122 verso: photograph of unnamed building (Daddar F.R.H., 1926) (Siran Dn.)
- Folio 122 verso: photograph of the launching of Kail sleepers ‘down a Pathru’ (Daddar)
- Folio 123 verso: photograph of a ‘Big Kail’ showing a turbaned figure standing in front of a tree trunk (Malkandi B.)
- Folio 123 verso: photograph of Parottia thickets (Nuri R.F.)
- Folio 124 verso: photograph of lightning struck Kail (Malkandi)
- Folio 125 verso: photograph of 87 year old Deodar tree exposed to browsing (Safr Maluk Slip)
- Folio 125 verso: photograph of the river one mile below Kagan (and showing a ladder bridge)
- Folio 126 recto: photograph of Deodar and Kail trees on the Safr Maluk Slip
- Folio 126 recto: photograph of a view looking down the valley 5 miles above Narang
- Folio 126 verso: photograph of Kail ‘top dry and with witches brooms’ due to Arceuthobium (Safr Maluk Slip)
- Folio 126 verso: photograph of a view up from Kagan (R.H.)
- Folio 127 recto: photograph of a view looking up the valley from Batakundi
- Folio 127 recto: photograph of B [illeg.] e pine ‘at 10,600 ft. Sharan ‘ heavily infested with Arceuthobium
- Folio 127 verso: photograph of a left-twisted Chil log at Daddar
- Folio 127 verso: photograph of Deodar regeneration 8ft. high under Kail Standards
- Folio 128 recto: photograph of Chir regeneration operations in Bazkhan
- Folio 128 recto: photograph of Deodar barked by bear (Kamalban)
- Folio 128 verso: photograph of a typical over mature Deodar in Malkandi
- Folio 128 verso: photograph with the description ‘potato culture as a help to Kail regeneration’ showings trees and tree stumps on a slope
- Folio 129 recto: photograph of ‘dry-top Kail in Thandiani (?) killed by trametes’
Loose items found in this diary consist of the Title page (Folio 2), folios 3, 3a, 5a, 59a, 116a, and 117a [total: 7 loose items]
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291236 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F252 : Papers of Sir Harry Champion, Indian Forest Service 1912-40; Professor of Forestry, Oxford 1940-59
Mss Eur F252/1-80 : Diaries
Mss Eur F252/18c : India: Burma, Madras and Hazara - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0020]/040-002291236
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1 volume and 249 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1926
- End Date:
- 1927
- Date Range:
- Nov 1926-Jun 1927
- Era:
- CE
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