Mss Eur F252/38

Diary includes:

• Folio 1 recto: map (actual size 25cms x 18cms) of part of East Africa showing Lake Victoria and routes in the surrounding territories of the Belgian Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika
• Folio 1a: timetable showing Britain-Far East and Africa Britain air flight arrivals and departures, airports and types of aircraft used [loose item]
• Folio 1b: Central African Airways Corporation sheet showing fares and rates and flight connections [loose item]
• Folio 2 recto: photograph of the Murchison Falls of the River Nile
• Folio 2 verso: photograph of Mount Kilimanjaro
• Folio 3 verso: photograph showing an example of ‘one of the Tree Lobelias’
• Folio 7 verso: photograph of palm trees viewed from Mombassa Club
• Folio 12 verso: photograph of “Templer’s” car bogged on the Mombasa Road near Melindi
• Folio 13 verso: photograph of large Baobab trees (29’ 6” & 28’ 5” G.B.H.) on the Mombasa-Melindi Road near Melindi
• Folio 14 verso: photograph of the Kilifi Ferry
• Folio 14a: photograph of Artocarpus integrifolia species of trees [loose item]
• Folio 14b: untitled photograph showing a large tree beside a rocky river bank [loose item]
• Folio 14c: untitled photograph showing a group of persons and a Morris motor car [loose item]
• Folio 14d: two King George VI (Uganda) postage stamps (value 10c. & 15c.) in a wallet [2 loose items]
• Folio 14e: list showing particulars of 4 species of plants from Professor Champion’s Kenya Colony collection [loose item]
• Folio 15a: untitled photograph showing a group of tall trees [loose item]
• Folio 15b: untitled photograph showing a motor car travelling on a track (with logs in the foreground and tall trees either side of the track) [loose item]
• Folio 15c: untitled photograph showing a tall wide spanning tree [loose item]
• Folio 16 verso: untitled photograph of a scene showing a distant snowy mountain peak
• Folio 20 verso: photograph of a waterfall on the south side of Kilimanjaro near Marangu
• Folio 21 verso: print of a watercolour picture showing Kibo Hotel, Marangu, (with author’s comment “where we stayed”)
• Folio 23 verso: photograph of Lobelia’s under temperate rain forest with Hypericum (South slope of Kilimanjaro)
• Folio 24 verso: photograph of the ‘Bismark Hut,’ the first stage up Kilimanjaro about 9000ft
• Folio 25 verso: photograph of Kilimanjaro and Mawenzu from Bismarkberg showing mountain peaks (with author’s observation “Peter’s hut is between the two”)
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of Philippia plants on grassland slopes of Mawenzu
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of temperate evergreen forest at Old Moshi
• Folio 27 verso: photograph of Drynaria ferns on Macaranga tree with C [illeg.] o pharyngia
• Folio 27 verso: photograph of Mount Kibo from the path up
• Folio 29 verso: photograph of Mount Kibo from Loitokitok Masai School
• Folio 30 verso: photograph of Rongai Forest Station (with a group of four “The Frasers and selves” seated at the entrance)
• Folio 32 verso: photograph of two rhinoceroses (probably photographed on Serengeti Plain)
• Folio 34 verso: photograph of a ‘fine baobab’ tree by the roadside near Moshi
• Folio 35 verso: photograph of the Nairobi Plain showing two wildebeest in the distance
• Folio 36 verso: photograph of a view on the Nairobi Plain showing a zebra visible in the distance
• Folio 36 verso: photograph of a Kikuyu woman at a railway station near Nairobi
• Folio 37 verso: postcard photograph of Kenya and Uganda Railways Mail Train
• Folio 37a: Distance Table in Nautical Miles (cutting from unknown publication) [loose item]
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of mountain bamboo plants near Kinancop
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of Aberdares from Kinacop Plateau
• Folio 39 verso: photograph of Kinacop Forest Station
• Folio 39 verso: photograph of a view from the slopes of Kinacop with Lake Naivasha, (showing Dombeya with Usna, Arundinaria and Lobelia species of plants)
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of Pencilwood Cedar (Juniperus procera) with Schefflera and Arundinaria lachnopylus, 10,000 ft. above Kinacop
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of the track at Kinacop Camp showing Lobelia and Rubus under Breyara and Hypericum species of plants
• Folio 41 verso: photograph showing a Senicio plant in flower (Kinancop: 12,000ft.)
• Folio 41 verso: photograph of the Tree Senicio Country at Kinancop at 12,000 ft.
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of the Peak of Kinancop, 12, 816 ft.
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of a meadow full of Tritoma plants (Kinancop Camp at approx. 10,000 ft.)
• Folio 43 verso: photograph of lunching in a drizzle just below Kinancop
• Folio 43 verso: photograph of a ‘striking’ thistle at Kinancop Camp
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of Aberdare moorland on to Kinancop
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of a tree Senicio and shaggy Lubelia on Kinancop at 12,000 ft.
• Folio 45 verso: photograph of a tree Senicio on Kinancop
• Folio 45 verso: photograph of a mountain bamboo brake on Aberdares above Nyeri
• Folio 46 verso: photograph of ‘another’ tree Senicio
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of Acacias in Nyobit R. Catchment, Nyeri
• Folio 48 verso: photograph of a scene in Sharpe’s Garden, N. Daragwa
• Folio 49 verso: photograph of a view in Sharpe’s Garden, N. Daragwa
• Folio 50 verso: photograph of Thomsons Falls Forest Station showing Olea Chrysophylla olive trees (with author’s comment “full of Hyrax”)
• Folio 51 verso: photograph of a typical flat topped Acacia tree (A. Lahani) with 'river rain' Eugenia and Podocarpus trees behind (Marok R. near Thomsons Falls)
• Folio 53 verso: photograph of a view looking down the falls on the Victoria Nile
• Folio 53 verso: photograph of crocodiles below the falls (Victoria Nile)
• Folio 54 verso: photograph of Murchison Falls from above
• Folio 55 verso: photograph of crocodiles on the banks of the Victoria Nile
• Folio 55 verso: photograph of a view of Murchison Falls
• Folio 56 verso: two photographs showing elephants, hippo and crocodile in the Victoria Nile
• Folio 57 verso: photograph of two elephants wading ashore (Victoria Nile)
• Folio 57 verso: photograph of the top of the Murchison Falls
• Folio 58 verso: photograph of a view down Murchison Falls and rapids of the Victoria Nile
• Folio 58 verso: photograph of ‘The Tusker’ elephant crossing the Nile
• Folio 59 verso: photograph of rapids below Murchison Falls
• Folio 59 verso: photograph of The Falls from below in a dull light
• Folio 60 verso: photograph of crocodiles basking round a tree (Victoria Nile)
• Folio 61 verso: photograph showing the felling of a 13ft. G.B.H. Kayea tree in the Budongo Forest
• Folio 61 verso: photograph showing the measuring of a large Entandophragma utile tree in the Budongo Forest
• Folio 62 verso: photograph showing “The Days Catch of Nile Perch”
• Folio 63 verso: photograph of an elephant (Murchison Falls)
• Folio 63 verso: photograph of crocodiles (Murchison Falls)
• Folio 65 verso: photograph of anthill vegetation in Lake George Game Reserve
• Folio 67 verso: photograph of Lake Edward, 2995ft. near Katwe
• Folio 69 verso: photograph of a buffalo
• Folio 70 verso: photograph of the ‘usual view’ of a hippo in water
• Folio 70 verso: photograph of fishing for Barbel species of fish (Ripon Falls)
• Folio 71 verso: photograph of Ripon Falls, Jinja
• Folio 72 verso: two photographs of fishing for Barbel at Ripon Falls, Jinja, showing (1) playing a fish (2) the catch
• Folio 73 verso: photograph of crocodiles on banks of the Victoria Nile
• Folio 75 recto: photograph of the motor vessel Dunvegan Castle (a ship sunk in the North Atlantic in September 1940)
• Folio 75 verso: two photographs showing hawkers by the motor vessel Dunvegan Castle at Port Said
• Folio 76 recto: photograph entitled ‘Leaving Port Said’ showing sailing boats in the distance