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Mss Eur F252/27
- Record Id:
- 040-002291246
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000bb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/27
- Title:
- India: Chittagong, South Bengal
- Scope & Content:
-
Diary includes:
- Folio 1 verso: segment of a map showing part of Bengal with the Lushai Hills to the east and to the south part of the Ganges
- Folio 2 verso: photograph of a view across the Kornafuli River from Jarultoli Camp, Kaptai
- Folio 3 verso: photograph of bamboo rafts on the Kornafuli near Kaptai
- Folio 4 verso: photograph with the description ‘on the path along the top of the river bank Gmelina with Melocanna genus of bamboo regrowth’ (Kaptai)
- Folio 5 verso: photograph of mahogany plantation, 1874, with noted “copious natural regeneration” (Kaptai, S.P.9.)
- Folio 6 verso: photograph of 15 year old jarul plantation twice thinned and evergreen undergrowth (Kaptai, 1918)
- Folio 7 verso: photograph showing the trunk of an Elaeocarpus varunua tree with noted “stilt roots” (Kaptai)
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of 13 year old teak plantation with good bamboo regrowth (Kaptai, 1920)
- Folio 9 verso: photograph showing ‘The 1873 Teak’ (Rampahar)
- Folio 12 verso: photograph showing country boats laden with baskets of cotton from Taungyas
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of a scene with boats and crew with the description ‘halting for lunch on the way up the Kasalong’
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of rafting bamboos down the Kasalong River, a late evening scene at Mainimukh
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of a typical buttressed civit with Dipterocarpus Pilosus and Dichopsis (Mainimukh)
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of Garjan - Dipterocarpus Pilosus, “fine trees” in a preservation plot (Mainimukh)
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of “another fine garjan” tree (Dipterocarpus Pilosus) (Mainimukh)
- Folio 17a: strip of paper, possibly used as a book-mark, with writing on the reverse as follows: “fertilisation the homozygous condition is brought about, it may be fatal. Such genes are known, though not in forest trees, but are usually recessive and masked by the corresponding dominant” [loose item]
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of 3 season old line sowings of Dipterocarpus Turbinatus with Tephrosia plants
- Folio 19 verso: photograph of 5 year old Jarul plantation (Mainimukh, 1929)
- Folio 20 verso: photograph showing an example of a Bombax insigne tree in evergreen forest (Mainimukh)
- Folio 21 verso: photograph showing Tali-Dichopsis (Palaquium) Polyantha, typical tree in Garjan forest (Mainimukh)
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of 8 year old Gmelina with 5 year old Dipterocarpus Turbinatus (Mainimukh)
- Folio 23 verso: photograph of a view ‘on the beach between Cox’s Bazaar and Inoni’
- Folio 24 verso: photograph of trees Dipterocarpus Turbinatus and Dipterocarpus Costatus residual near villages (Bhimoria Ghona)
- Folio 25 verso: photograph at Bhimoriaghona F.R.H. (Cox’s Bazaar Dn.)
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of a Garjan tree (Dipterocarpus Costatus) left standing in 1933 taungya of Dipterocarpus Turbinatus with Tephrosia (Bhimoriaghona, Cox’s Bazaar)
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of a plantation showing successful Dipterocarpus Turbinatus notching under Dipterocarpus Costatus (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 28 verso: photograph showing an example of ‘excellent Dipterocarpus Turbinatus strips 6 seasons old, raised with Tephrosia’ (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of Quercus Acuminata oak tree 7’-6” GBH on Bhimoriaghona Linear Plot
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of Dipterocarpus Alatus trees at the edge of paddy fields (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 31 verso: photograph showing two trees ‘typical village land garjan’ Dipterocarpus costatus on Tela at Bhimoriaghona
- Folio 32 verso: photograph at Inoni F.R.H. showing a view ‘under the Casurinas’
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of open bamboo forest at Inoni, with the added description ‘probably secondary’
- Folio 34 verso: photograph of coastal cliffs near Inoni with Dipterocarpus Alatus trees and Muli bamboo
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of untended Muli bamboo brakes (Inoni)
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of evergreen forest with Dipterocarpus pilosus, Tetrameles, Mangifera and Albizzia (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of Hopea Odorata trees regeneration experiment (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of Bambusa Dulloa bamboo plants (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of Eugenia Grandis tree, 9’-6” G. (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of a Artocarpus Chaplasha plantation, 4 season-old lines (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of Lophopetalum Fimbriatum plant, 125 high (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of Bauhinia Anguina in semi-evergreen forest with bamboo (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 43 verso: photograph a plantation showing Dichopsis, Swietenia and Eucalyptus Citriodora, 4 seasons-old (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of 13 season-old Gmelina with Melocanna regrowth already being worked (Kaptai, 1920)
- Folio 45 recto: photograph showing Lagerstroema Flus-reginae, 11 season-old, 5’x5’, thinned at 8 years (Kaptai)
- Folio 46 recto: photograph of a forest showing the species Dipterocarpus pilosus (Mainimukh)
- Folio 47 recto: photograph of a group of people standing in front of a large tree trunk (from left to right: FG./RO/CKH/EOS/FG/GPTA/SEN G.)
- Folio 47 verso: photograph of Dipterocarpus pilosus with Dichopsis Polyantha on the right (Mainimukh)
- Folio 48 recto: photograph of Dipterocarpus pilosus poles with Diospyros trees (Mainimukh)
- Folio 49 recto: photograph of Dipterocarpus turbinatus, 4 season-old old line sowings (Mainimukh, 1930)
- Folio 49 verso: photograph of Swietenia species of plants, 2 season-old in alternate lines with Gmelina nurse crop, and showing the figure of a Chakma Headman (Mainimukh)
- Folio 50 recto: photograph of Dipterocarpus turbinatus, 3 seasons-old under sown to Gmelina now 8 seasons-old (Mainimukh)
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of Dipterocarpus turbinatus, 3 seasons-old, line sowing with 8’x4’ Gmelina nurse-crop ‘alt.’ (?alternate) lines cut out after 2 seasons (Mainimukh)
- Folio 51 recto: photograph of an area in Chittagong Evergreen Forest showing tree species that include Hopea, Eugenia grandis, Dipterocarpus costatus, Phyllanthus emblica and Calophyllum (Linear S.P.1. Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph showing Dipterocarpus custatus species of tree (National Regeneration Experiment) where clearing undergrowth and burning has replaced evergreen by Imperata and “D.Turb.” has been successfully notched 3 seasons ago
- Folio 52 recto: photograph of a forest with ‘evergreen persisting’ (E.P.2 Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 52 verso: photograph of 3 season-old line sowings of Dipterocarpus Turbinatus with Tephrosia
- Folio 53 recto: photograph of Hopea Odorata species of plant, 4 year old line sowing with heavy Eupatorium (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 54 recto: photograph of Dipterocarpus Turbinatus, 2 seasons-old with Tephrosia (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of Dipterocarpus Turbinatus, one season-old (25th May 1933) in Tephrosia sown 6 weeks earlier (15th April 1933) (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 55 recto: photograph of Eugenia grandis, 2 seasons-old with Tephrosia (Bhimoriaghona)
- Folio 56 recto: photograph of Melocanna Bambusoides species of bamboo ‘cleaned’
- Folio 57 recto: photograph of self-sown Casuarina species of tree with Acanthus on salt mud-flat (Inoni)
- Folio 58 recto: photograph of Artocarpus Chaplashia contour line sowing, 2 seasons-old with August sown Tephrosia trimmed back months ago (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 59 recto: photograph at Hazarikhel nursery showing Tarakogenus, Dipterocarpus Turbinatus and Dipterocarpus Costatus
- Folio 60 recto: photograph at Hazarikhel nursery Mesua and Tarakogenus 4 seasons-old, with Vitex glabrata species of tree behind
- Folio 61 recto: photograph of Hopea and Dichopsis at a plantation (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 62 recto: photograph of 10 year old Dipterocarpus Turbinatus (Sample plot 5 from 6’x6’ patch sowing) (Hazarikhel)
- Folio 63 recto: photograph of Dipterocarpus Turbinatus, 5 season-old 6’x6’ under 12 year Ghelina (E.P.2 Hazarikhel)
- Folio 63 verso: photograph of Hopea 3 seasons-old from stumps sowing and transplants (with Dipterocarpus Turbinatus 4 season sowing on the left)
- Folio 64 recto: photograph showing Lophopetalum fimbriatum species, 3 seasons-old from stumps (with 4 seasons-old direct sowing on the right)
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291246 - 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 F252/27 : India: Chittagong, South Bengal - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0030]/040-002291246
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume and 68 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1933
- End Date:
- 1933
- Date Range:
- Nov 1933-Dec 1933
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliated: 64 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)