File 4 - Plant specimens

1 folder (c. 200 items)

Correspondence with enclosures of plant specimens and articles from Maura Scannell of the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin. Includes a 1984 paper by Tim Robinson 'Plant Records from West Galway' (drafts exchanged with an editor included later in folder). Correspondence also covers Aughros House / Coney House on the 1860 Admiralty Chart and Walter Wade who did the first botanic investigation of Connemara (1980-1987);

Letter from Noel King to Tim enclosing a map and listing protected species and locations (16 November 1984);

Two letters from Cilian Roden with enclosed articles for proof reading on mountain flora (year unknown);

Series of copied research articles and talks, listed here:

'The Vegetation of Southern Connemara' by Gertrude Connolly (1930);

'Is the Classification of plant communities either possible or desirable?' D A Webb (1954);

From 'Flora of the British Isles' on Erica Ciliaris L. in Ireland' by D A Webb (1962);

'Carex Dioica L. at Lough Coura in County Offaly', (July 1969);

'Craiggamore and Craiggabeg in West Galway' (1975);

'Notes on Irish Vegetation: No 1 The Vegetation of Shingle in County Louth' James White (1981);

'Natural History in Connemara, A Case for Conservation', (1984);

'A Scientific Tour through Munster: The Travels of Joseph Woods, Architect and Botanist, in 1908', G J Lyne and M E Mitchell;

Selected copies on Polygonum oxyspermum, angelica sylvestris L, the Renvyle Hydrilla, Hydrilla Verticillata, Juncus Planifolius;

An Roinn Oideachais 'Ainmneacha Plandaí agus Ainmhithe / Flora and Fauna Nomenclature';

Hand-drawn chart outlining the transport system for food and water, and seed producers.

Photograph of Minulus guttatus and lutea from June 1983.

Several volumes of the Royal Dublin Society's Journal of Life Sciences (1981 and 1982). Offprint from proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 'An Account of the flora and vegetation of Derryclare Wood' by David K Ferguson and Victor Westhoff, and a photocopy of a handwritten letter to David Ferguson asking for stories of Cuach na Coille, a beautiful horsewoman who lived there, and of a lodge owned by the Martin family.

Two press cuttings from the Irish Times (1984 and 1990) on the effect of the warm weather on the seaweed industry and wild flowers.

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