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Mss Eur F252/32
- Record Id:
- 040-002291251
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000c0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/32
- Title:
- Round the World Trip Part 2 – Malaya and Burma
- Scope & Content:
-
Diary includes:
- Folio 1 verso: sketch map (actual size 4” x 6½”) of Malaya showing principle stations on F.M.S. Railways
- Folio 2 verso: photograph of the Sea-shore, Malacca, showing Malay boys rowing boats
- Folios 2a-2b: envelope, addressed to Sir Harry Champion and Lady Champion, 16 Tam Freeman Kuala Lumpur, containing the business card of Sir Eric Norris, British High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur [2 loose items]
- Folios 3a-3c: pencil notes showing the names of persons, photographs and places of interest relating to the Malay tour [3 loose items]
- Folio 4 verso: cutting from an unnamed publication giving a short account of the ‘celebrated’ gardens of Singapore
- Folio 5 verso: coloured postcard photograph of the Causeway, Singapore-Johore, showing stationery railway carriages
- Folio 6 verso: two photographs entitled ‘In Panti R.F., Johore’ showing (1) showing three unnamed figures standing at a Dryobalanops aromatic species of tree regeneration plant and (2) four figures walking up a silted streambed
- Folio 7 verso: coloured postcard photograph of the Johore State Mosque
- Folio 7 verso: Johore 8 cent postage stamp
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of log pond and junk sailing vessel at Kota Tinggi, Johore
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of ‘The Memsahibs’ viewing needlework, Johore (photograph includes Mrs Strugnell and Cuthbert Smith)
- Folio 9 verso: two photographs entitled ‘Panglong and Jalang-Galang Extraction, Kluang-Mersingh Road’ showing logs being transported
- Folio 10 verso: postcard photograph of a workman ploughing padi (Padi Fields), Malacca
- Folio 11 verso: two photographs at Merlimau R.F., Malacca, showing (1) felling (2) Meranti plant regeneration, mostly SH. Leprosula
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of a view from the ‘old church,’ Malacca, and showing HMS Cornwall anchored in Roadstead
- Folio 12 verso: photograph entitled ‘After Our Merlimaj Forest Inspection’ showing a motor car and two figures seated by a tree trunk
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of a new road in Bukut Singgeh, Malacca
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of a view from Malacca Church
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of the ‘inspecting regeneration in BT. Senggeh,’ showing ‘Hodgson, Arnott and self’
- Folio 17 verso: postcard photograph of Malay Kampong (Village), Malacca
- Folio 21 verso: photograph entitled “How much longer will they go on talking about it?” showing a lady sitting alone on a log
- Folio 21a: pencil notes showing a list of names and occupations of persons [loose item]
- Folio 24 verso: photograph showing an aerial view of the winding road down from Fraser Hill
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of Mill Forest with Tree Ferns at Gap (Pahang)
- Folio 31 verso: coloured photograph of coconuts being picked from high palm trees by Malaya natives
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of the Taiping Mangrove
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of ‘The Chinese Fishing Village’ (Taiping)
- Folio 34 verso: coloured photograph showing an example of “Durians – King of Fruits in Malaya”
- Folio 35 verso: two photographs of scenes ‘In the Taiping Mangrove’
- Folio 36 verso: two photographs showing scenes at the Chinese Fishing Village in the Taiping Mangrove Forest
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of Penang Swimming Club, Batu Ferringhi, Penang, showing buildings at a seashore
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of the Botanical Gardens, Penang
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of Khoo Kongsi House
- Folio 41 verso: photograph entitled “Beer at Panti at the end of inspection”
- Folio 45 verso: coloured photograph of a fisherman’s “atap” house (Malaya)
- Folio 46 verso: photograph showing the examination of a Dryobalanops oblongifola species of plant at Panti with Cuthbert-Smith
- Folio 47 recto: photograph with the description ‘Kapan = Dryobalanops aromatica’ showing tall trees overlooking a group of people by a stretch of water (Panti. R.F., Johore)
- Folio 48 recto: photograph of rafts of logs from upstream at Kota Tinggi Sawmill
- Folio 48 verso: photograph with the description ‘Jalang-Galang at M8 on Kluang-Hursing Road, Johore’ showing a log being transported
- Folio 49 recto: two photographs of the loading of logs brought in by ‘Panglong’ for Moh Sing Sawmill, (Kluang)
- Folio 50 recto: two photographs of Moh Sing Sawmill, Johore
- Folio 51 recto: two photographs showing the sawing of Kempas Shingles at Kota Tinggi (Koompassia Malaccensis), Johore
- Folio 52 recto: photograph showing felled Nemesu (Shorea pauciflora), Merlimau, Malacca
- Folio 52 verso: photograph on natural regeneration of Meranti tembaga species of plant (S. Leprosula, Merlimau, Malacca)
- Folio 53 recto: two untitled photographs showing unnamed plants in woodland
- Folio 54 recto: photograph of an experimental cart for log extraction (Dunlop’s), Selandar, Malacca
- Folio 55 recto: photograph of a river stretching into woodland
- Folio 55 recto: photograph of planted up gaps in a Rhizophora mangrove tree forest, Taiping
- Folio 55a: two Malaya 5 cent brown (Perak) postage stamps attached to one another [loose item]
- Folio 56 recto: photograph taken at ‘late evening’ in the Taiping Mangrove
- Folio 57 recto: two photographs of scenes in a Chinese fishing village at the edge of the Taiping Mangrove
- Folio 58 recto: two photographs showing (1) forest guards house and (2) the way from the forest guards house to the village in the Taiping Mangrove
- Folio 58a: pressing of the leaves of an unnamed plant [loose item]
- Folio 58b: pressing of the leaves of an unnamed fern [loose item]
- Folio 58c: untitled photograph showing a mooring area and huts viewed from across a large stretch of water [loose item]
- Folio 58d: untitled photograph showing a mooring area with a boat moored to a jetty [loose item]
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291251 - 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 F252/32 : Round the World Trip Part 2 – Malaya and Burma - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0035]/040-002291251
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume and 58 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1935
- End Date:
- 1935
- Date Range:
- Dec 1935
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliated: 58 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)