| Needham/NRI2/SCC2/255/1 contains: |
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Copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to Dr. W. B. Gardener of East Mersea, Essex, about his paper on 'The Development of Comprehensive Records of the Chinese Flora', and related documents |
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Letter from Judith C. Brown of Pan Britannica Industries Limited, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, to the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, enquiring about the history of the rose in China, and related document |
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Correspondence with E. F. Allen of the Royal National Rose Society, about the history of the rose in Chinese literature and other matters |
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Correspondence with Dr. Chhen Chung-Ming [??? / Chen Zhongming] of the National Sun Yat-Sen Botanic Garden, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, about studies of the Chinese pharmaceutical natural history literature |
| 24 |
Correspondence with William N. Carvell of the Department of Botany, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A., about his desire to work in the field of the history of Chinese botany |
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Letter from Elizabeth Rawson Macgill of Mount Airy, Maryland, U.S.A. about unidentified plants from a book by John of Feckenham, (1515-1585), entitled 'This Booke of Sovereigne Medicines', and related documents |
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Letter from Prof. Dr. Harald Lorenzen of the Pflanzenphysiologisches Institut, University of Göttingen, Germany, praising 'Science and Civilisation in China', and copy of Joseph Needham's reply |
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Letter from Dr. Michael Corr of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. about proposed research relating to plants in early Chinese literature 'with a view to promoting understanding of Asian medical phyto-geography', and related documents |
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Letter from Dr. Tu Nai-Cheng [Du Naizheng] of the Botanisches Institut, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, explaining his interest in the history of Chinese botany, and copy of Joseph Needham's reply |
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Correspondence with Dr. Theodore R. Dudley of the United States National Aboretum, Washington D.C., about international standards of botanical nomenclature and other matters, and related documents |
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Letter from D. R. Stoddart of the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, about his application to the Royal Society China Programme for funds to assist a visit to China, and related document |
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine
| Title |
Letter from Elizabeth Rawson Macgill of Mount Airy, Maryland, U.S.A. about unidentified plants from a book by John of Feckenham, (1515-1585), entitled 'This Booke of Sovereigne Medicines', and related documents |
| Reference |
SCC2/255/1/25 |
| Creator |
Macgill, Elizabrth Rawson; Needham, Joseph. |
| Covering Dates |
21 Aug. 1983–7 Jan. 1984 |
| Extent and Medium |
4 sheets; Paper |
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| Content and context |
The related documents comprise a copy of Joseph Needham's reply; copy of the list of unidentified plants; abstract of a research plan prepared by Macgill for her work on the book. |
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