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Mss Eur F252/24
- Record Id:
- 040-002291243
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000b8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/24
- Title:
- India: Tour of North Bengal & Sunderbans, Kulu, Jaunsar and Kumaon
- Scope & Content:
-
Diary includes the following:
- Folio 1 verso: photograph of Bengal Wet Mixed Forest (Ramjhora, Moraghat, Jalpaiguri Dn.)
- Folio 2 verso: photograph of a motor car leaving Nilpara
- Folio 4 verso: photograph of Siliguri Timber Depot
- Folio 5 verso: photograph of Alnus Nepalensis and Bucklandia trees 9 seasons old (Mahaldaram, Darjeeling)
- Folio 6 verso: photograph of nurseries with Michelia Excelsa plants (Sonada, Darjeeling)
- Folio 7 verso: photograph showing a building with veranda (Sukhna F.R.H., Kurseong Div.)
- Folio 7 verso: photograph of Siliguri Timber Depot
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of Bamanpockhri Teak Plantation of 1868
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of linear sample plot in wet mixed forest
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of Artocarpus Chaplasha Plantation of 1921 after a visit by wild elephant (Sukhna)
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of ‘crossing the Teesta by ferry’
- Folio 10 verso: photograph of ‘Panisaj’ or Terminalia Myriocarpa species of trees, 12 years old (Samsing)
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of ‘crossing the Teesta by ferry’
- Folio 10 verso: photograph of Terminalia Myriocarpa species of trees, 12 and 3 years at Samsing, Kalimpong
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of Haines’ Sal Plantation of 1898 near Kuntamari, N. Moraghat, Jalpai
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of a two storey building with veranda and steps leading to entrances ( Kuntamari F.R.H.)
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of Bengal Wet Mixed Forest showing a Castanopsis tree and various species of plants, including ferns
- Folio 12 verso: photograph with the description ‘1930 Sal Taungya of Madeshias – Manihot,’ showing a plantation (Kuntamari, Jalpai)
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of trees ‘Lampati = Duabanga Sonneratioidess, 6 seasons’ (Rehti, Jalpaiguri Dn.)
- Folio 13 verso: photograph showing ‘exceptionally fine first season Sal Taungya’ (Dalgaon, Jalpaiguri Dn.)
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of plantation of Bambusa Polymorpha (Kodalbasti, Buxa Dn.)
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of an early sal plantation of 1911 (Mendabari F.R.H., Buxa Dn.)
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of 11 year old sal taungya (Mendabari, Buxa Dn.)
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of Bishofia (Kainjal) species of trees, 14 years, at Godamdabri, Buxa
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of Bishofia trees at Godamdabri, Buxa
- Folio 17 verso: photograph showing buildings (Raimatong, Buxa)
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of an experiment of sal regeneration in sa [illeg.] grass (Buxa Dn.)
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of dry mixed forest with sal with various species of undergrowth
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of 1876-80 sal plantation at Dhamanpur, Buxa
- Folio 19 verso: photograph jarul plantation of 1921, 11 years old (R.V.K., Buxa)
- Folio 19 verso: photograph of ‘Pakkabaj’ Terminalia Tomentosa 9 years old thinned at 5 and 8 years (R.V.K., Buxa)
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of Chickrassia Tabularis 12 years old thinned at 8 and 11 years (R.V.K. 1920, S.P.8., Buxa)
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of Malagiri (or Cinnamomum Cecidodaphine) 12 year old trees dying from unknown cause (R.V.K. 1920, Buxa)
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of Gmelina Arborea trees, 1922, 10 years old (S.P.7 R.V.K., Buxa)
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of a typical tea garden (Nimati)
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of the main ‘street’ of Garo Forest Village, Nimati, with bachelors quarters at end
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of women ginning taunga cotton at Garo Forest Village, Nimati
- Folio 23 verso: two photographs of Sipsah Coupe, Sunderbans
- Folio 24 verso: photograph of the edge of Sundri Forest, Sipsah
- Folio 24 verso: photograph of SL. Hawk from SL. Harrier
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of SL. Harrier and SL. Hawk at Khulna
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of nurseries for Michelia Champaca, Kuntamari
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of a plantation of 1925 dying back from Ūrostylis (Dalgaon, Jalpai)
- Folio 27 recto: photograph of sal taungyas first thinning leaving 24 stems per 100ft. (Kuntamari)
- Folio 27 recto: photograph of sal, 1930 (Nimati Buxa)
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of bachelors quarters at Nimati (Garo Village)
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of plucking cotton in Taungya
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of Virgin Silver Fir and Yew in a Tosnal Preservation Plot
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of a deodar sample plot – Kulu 29 (63 years, 89 ft. high)
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of young Silver Fir under over-mature Blue Pine (Swajni)
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of Strobilanthes Wallichii plants with Silver Fir regeneration (Pulga E.P.14)
- Folio 32 verso: photograph of group fellings in spruce forest (E.P.33 near Naggar)
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of Virgin Spruce and Silver Fir in a preservation plot (Kaisdhar 46)
- Folio 34 verso: photograph of deodar sample plot at Monali (S.P.14, 117ft high; 67 years)
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of deodar sample plot at Monali (S.P.1, 113ft high; 65 years)
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of deodar sample plot at Monali (S.P.14, 117ft high; 67 years)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of fire line and rest house, deodar and spruce forest (Kaisdhar)
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of Virgin Spruce and Silver Fir (Kaisdhar Preservation Plot)
- Folio 39 verso: two photographs of regeneration fellings at Kaisdhar showing (1) shelter-wood felling in mixed forest with deodar and (2) experimental strip felling
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of a very tall Cupressus Torulosa cypress tree at Bhuar Debta, Parbatti V.
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of deodar and Blue Pine regeneration, Kasol C1 (The Parbatti Valley Road)
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of Falls in the Parbatti River above Kasol towards Manikern
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of a 45 year old spruce growing in a hollow deodar stump (Pulga)
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of Tosnal Hut with view up the Valley (Buddaban)
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of Cyripedium Himalayense plant in flower (Tosnal)
- Folio 45 verso: photograph of Virgin Blue Pine 115ft. high (Tosnal Preservation Plot)
- Folio 46 verso: photograph of high level Silver Fir and Blue Pine (view: North from top of E.P.11)
- Folio 47 verso: photograph of high level Silver Fir, Yew and Birch on old snow slide (E.P.11 Tosnal)
- Folio 48 verso: photograph of Silver Fir regeneration under hardwoods, mainly Maple (E.P.14 Pulga)
- Folio 49 verso: photograph of high level Blue Pine adjoining grazing ground (E.P.22 Swajni)
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of Blue Pine extending into Alpine pasture with Anemone in flower (Swajni)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of ‘Sacred’ deodar grove at Pulga
- Folio 52 verso: photograph of The Village Horse Chestnut at Pulga
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of The Parbatti between Pulga and Manikern (showing water rapids)
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of The Parbatti above Manikern (and showing poplars and spruce)
- Folio 55 verso: photograph of the Kasol/Manikern Bridge over The Parbatti
- Folio 56 recto: photograph of Manikern Hot Springs
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of Deodar Sample Plot No.1 at Monali
- Folio 57 recto: photograph of Deodar Sample Plot No.29 (68 years; height 89ft.)
- Folio 57 verso: two photographs entitled ‘A Hill God on the Move’ showing (1) a group of people playing musical wind instruments possibly kombus’s and shehnai’s and (2) a group carrying an effigy of the god
- Folio 62 verso: photograph of a charred and twisted pine stump (Maharpali)
- Folio 63 verso: photograph of a building (Garkhet F.R.H.)
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of the unprotected plot outside the Wall (Maharpali)
- Folio 65 verso: photograph entitled ‘showing recovery after bad snow damage’ showing woodlands (Maharpali C.6)
- Folio 66 verso: photograph of the Gumti Valley and Khabdoli Ridge from the Maharpali Road
- Folio 67 verso: two photographs showing views of a Chir regeneration area in Parkot
- Folio 68 verso: photograph of chir saplings ready for examination for twist at Garkhet
- Folio 68 verso: photograph showing the result of old style resin tapping by villagers
- Folio 69 verso: photograph of Parkot Regeneration Area from Bajgaon F.R.H.
- Folio 69 verso: photograph of chir saplings for twist examination at Garkhet
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of oak and rhodo and pieris surviving fire on north aspect under chir
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of shelter-wood regeneration in forest in Parkot from Bajgaon F.R.H.
- Folio 71 verso: photograph of the Sarju Gorge above Bageswar Junction with Lahor
- Folio 72 verso: photograph of banj oak under chir in north slope (N. Khabdoli)
- Folio 76 verso: photograph of sal taunya, of 1920 (12 years) (R .V.K. Buxa)
- Folio 76 verso: untitled photograph of an irrigation area
- Folio 77 recto: untitled photograph of a tree plantation
- Folio 77 recto: photograph of Cedrela Toona trees, 15 years (1917) (Godamdabri, Buxa)
- Folio 77 verso: two photographs showing “good 2 year old sal taungya” (Dalgaeon 1930, Jalpaiguri Dn.)
- Folio 78 recto: photograph of 15 year old sal taungya with damp undergrowth (S.P.17, Kodalbasti, Buxa)
- Folio 78 recto: photograph of 13 year old sal taungya (S.P.15, Mendabari, Buxa)
- Folio 78 verso: photograph showing cyclone damage in mature sal (Siyok, Kurseong)
- Folio 78 verso: photograph of low level Duabanga trees, 1929 (Rehti, Jalpaiguri)
- Folio 79 recto: photograph of Terminalia Myriocarpa trees, 10 years old (1922) with natural phoebe attenuata at Samsing, Kalimpong
- Folio 79 recto: photograph with the description ‘Bogo in use as shade to new tea’ and showing a plantation (Nilpara, Buxa)
- Folio 79 verso: photograph of 1930 sal taungya of Garos, Kuntamari, Jalpai
- Folio 79 verso: photograph of Bambusa Nutans plant from Offset, Dalgaon
- Folio 80 recto: photograph of Michelia Champaca trees of 8 seasons with croton plants etc. at Samsing
- Folio 80 recto: photograph of Amora Wallichi planted close to the outside of a building (R.V.K. Buxa)
- Folio 80 verso: photograph of a creeper experiment plot at Sukhna
- Folio 80 verso: photograph of Michelia Oblonga plants of 11 seasons (1921) (S.P.9 R.V.K.)
- Folio 81 recto: photograph of Cinnamomum Cecidodaphne trees of 12 seasons (1920) (S.P.6 R.V.K., Buxa)
- Folio 81 verso: photograph of Osmunda with young Blue Pine in Swajni Maidan
- Folio 82 recto: photograph of old Blue Pine at edge of Swajni Thatch with anemone
- Folio 82 verso: photograph of dense Blue Pine regeneration on site of avalanche (Tosnal E.P. 10)
- Folio 83 recto: photograph of over-mature Blue Pine at 9500’ (Tosnal)
- Folio 83 verso: photograph of root competition experiment in Deodar, Monali
- Folio 84 recto: photograph of strip felling spruce regeneration experiment (Kaisdhar)
- Folio 84 verso: photograph of spruce saplings heavily infected with barclayella (Tosnal)
- Folio 85 recto: photograph of deodar stump 9ft across and over 300 years old
- Folio 85 verso: two photographs showing scenes in a Hill Debta’s Procession
- Folio 86 recto: photograph of natural regeneration of deodar and Blue Pine (Riampin)
- Folio 86 verso: photograph of the Mandi Bazaar
- Folio 86 verso: photograph of a Kulu Temple
- Folio 87 recto: photograph showing the effect of splash on deodar seedlings in nursury
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291243 - 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 F252/24 : India: Tour of North Bengal & Sunderbans, Kulu, Jaunsar and Kumaon - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0027]/040-002291243
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume and 131 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1932
- End Date:
- 1932
- Date Range:
- Jan 1932-Oct 1932
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Foliated: 87 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)