BC 275  EDITH L STEPHENS PAPERS  

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

Material donated to the U.C.T. Libraries by Miss Edith L Stephens and transferred from the Botany Department in 1966 and 1975

No. of

folders

A

CORRESPONDENCE

A1

Correspondence from various friends and fellow botanists, c. 1912-c.1965

13

A2

Correspondence about research grants c.1912-1938

2

A3

Society affiliations

1

B

FUNGI

B1

Checklist of gasteromycetes of the Cape Province

1

B2

Preliminary list of larger fungi in the Cape district

1

B3

Correspondence with Arthur A Pearson re agarics, mycology, etc.

1

B4

A key to the genera of the agarics and boleti

1

C

ALGAE

C1

Freshwater algae of Africa

1

C2

Notes on algae - diatoms, etc

1

C3

South African algae, miscellaneous notes

1

C4

Hydrodictyon notes

1

C5

Microcystis notes

1

C6

Notes on algae and formulae for controlling algae

1

C7

Reports on samples of water taken from various dams in Southern Africa

1

C8

Notes on algae in local ponds, dams and marshes

1

C9

Notes on aquatic plants and animals

1

C10

Notes on marine algae, etc.

1

D

EXCURSIONS

D1

Notes on a trip to Chobe swamp, c.1930

1

D2

St Helena Bay excursion, 1932

1

E

FIELD NOTESBOOKS ON FUNGI

E1.1­- E1.4

Plant lists of mushrooms

4

E1.5

Descriptions and drawings

1

E2.1­-E2.14

Field notebooks of various types of fungi, dated from 1948-1961

14

E2.15

List of Peninsula fungi

1

E2.16

Notebook on agarics

1

E2.17

Notebook on gasteromycetes

1

E2.18

Notebook with descriptions of various types of mushrooms

1

E2.19

"South African Fungi to Eat and Enjoy", collected recipes. TSS, etc., in ringbinder

1

E3.1

Notebook entitled "History of Botany parthenogenesis"

1

E3.2

Notebook on trees

1

F

FIELD NOTEBOOKS ON ALGAE

F1.1

Alphabetical list of articles on algae

1

F1.2

Malmesbury-to Cedarberg - expedition, n.d.

1

F2.1­-F2.11

Field notebooks

11

F3

List of collectors and districts, Cape Colony

1

G

PEERS' CAVE

G1

Memoirs of Victor Stanley Peers, as well as two guides to the Peers' Cave

1

G2

a) "Ancient Fish Hoek man and his home", lecture given in 1928 to the Natural History Club, by Bertie Peers. TSS.

b) Preliminary report by A J H Goodwin, on the archaeology of the Fish Hoek - Noord Hoek Valley, 12.7.1929. Roneod

c) "New discoveries relating to the antiquity of man", by Arthur Keith. TSS, with a attachments

1

G3

Bertie Louis Peers, obituaries, etc. and clippings relating also to Fish Hoek man

1

G4

Notes and clippings on Bushmen

1

G5

Notes on anthropoid apes, from Yerkes' "Almost Human", and Kearton's "My friend Toto".

1

H

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, ARTICLES, PAMPHLETS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

H1

Note on the restoration of native flora on the slopes of Groote Schuur Estate, and a note on dry rot, etc

1

H2.1­- H2.5

Miscellaneous notebooks, etc.

5

H3

Obituaries and biographical notes, mainly about botanists

1

H4

Articles by various people

1

H5

"Finda and the old blind men", by E Dora Earlty. MSS

1

H6

Pamphlets

1

H7

Maps of Kirstenbosch, and elsewhere

1

H8.1­ -H8.2

Flower cards issued by the United Tobacco Company, and the Westminister Tobacco Co.

2

H9.1­-H9.2

Two scrapbooks, one "Our Incomparable Flora", con­taining photographs of S A Flora from Newspapers and the other reproductions of paintings, with descriptions of the illustrations of flora, clipped from an unknown source, mounted in an album entitled "The National Botanic Gardens".

2

H10

Sepia wash drawing of a Hamerkop

1

H11

Six small oil paintings of India

1

J

PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

J1

Portraits of Edith Stephens

1

J2

Portrait of Dr E L Layard

J3

Miscellaneous photographs, includes portraits of G 0 Allen, Florence Rich, James Greves(?), A A Pearson and some group photographs

1

J4

Photographs of vleis, etc

1

J5

Newspaper clippings

1

Total 93 folders