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- [1876]-1992. (Creation)
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6 folders and 9 envelopes.
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Scope and content
‘Letters of special interest’ relating to beekeeping, [1876]-1968, including photographs of a letter from Charles Darwin and a photocopy of a letter from Sir Edmund Hilary; E. B. Wedmore and others: correspondence, 1948-1965; microscope slides’ correspondence, 1949-1976; Apimondia and the Bee Research Association, 1951; list of bee plants; correspondence, 1951-1952; general correspondence and papers, 1952-1992; G. P. Henderson agreement, 1955; international appeal, 1960-1967; Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux application, 1960-1967; Bee World remodelling, 1961-1962; Development Commission applications, 1972-1981; International Bee Research Association: agreements, 1972-1986; Sir James Beament: correspondence, 1984-1991; Miss D. Galton’s correspondence, 1984-1992; and Dr M. A. Swaminathan: correspondence, 1988-1989.
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Arranged chronologically at NLW into fifteen files.
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Note
Preferred citation: CA5.