BC 971 SCHELPE PAPERS
Manuscripts & Archives
University of Cape Town Libraries
Edmund Andr‚ Charles Louis Eloi Schelpe was born in Durban on the 27 July 1924. He spent his boyhood there, and graduated from the University of Natal with a degree (with distinction) in Botany in 1943. He was later awarded an M.Sc for a thesis on the ecology of the Natal Drakensburg. He then went to Oxford where he was awarded a D.Phil for a thesis on the ecology of bryophytes. In 1953 he was appointed lecturer in Botany at the University of Cape Town. In 1956 he became a senior lecturer in Plant Taxonomy and curator of the Bolus Herbarium. He was awarded the Nuffield Dominion travelling fellowship in Natural Sciences in 1960 and appointed associate professor in 1968. He became Professor of Botany (Ad Hominem), and Director of the Bolus Herbarium in 1973. Professor Schelpe maintained a reputation for honesty, integrity and a boundless enthusiasm for his botanical studies and for the Bolus Herbarium. He was an expert on Cape Flora and a world authority on orchids and ferns. His joie de vivre and botanical enthusiasm led him to organise expeditions to Mount Kenya in 1949 and to the Western Himalayas in 1952. He died in 1985.
The collection comprises photographs (prints)and negatives recording his expedition to Mount Kenya, his enthusiastic interest in ferns and orchids, and in the Bolus Herbarium, information relating to his work in the Botany Department at the University of Cape Town, and films recording his expeditions to Kenya in 1949, and the Himalayas in 1956.
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BC 971 |
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SCHELPE PAPERS |
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A |
EXPEDITIONS |
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A1 |
Switzerland 1948 |
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A1.1 |
Film (oversize-box) |
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A2 |
Kenya 1949 - Oxford University Expedition |
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A2.1 |
Films (oversize-box) |
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A2.2 |
Photographs - vegetation (used in article `London Calling' 27.04.1950) |
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A2.3 |
Photograph album and scrapbook containing newspaper clippings |
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A2.4 |
Aerial photographs |
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A2.5 |
Copy of collecting register kept by Schelpe and White (original in the British Museum of Natural History) |
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A3 |
Himalayas 1952 |
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A3.1 |
Notes on films |
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A3.2 |
Films (oversize-box) |
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B |
ORCHIDS |
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(B1-B14 in oversize-box) |
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B1 |
Orchids - slides used in lectures |
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B2 |
Orchids
- slides `P glancophylla' etc |
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B3.1 |
Orchids - large slides (packet 1) |
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B3.2 |
Orchids - large slides (packet 2) |
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B4 |
South African Orchids slides (labelled box 1) |
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B5 |
South African Orchids slices (labelled box 2) |
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B6 |
Orchids slides (box labelled 3 giraffe at waterhole) |
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B7 |
Orchids slides (king slide holder) |
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B8 |
Orchids slides (small blue box) |
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B9 |
Orchids slides (small yellow/black box) |
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B10 |
Orchids slides (flat yellow box) |
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B11 |
Orchids slides (small blue box labelled `3') |
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B12 |
Orchids - negatives (small silver tin) |
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B13 |
Orchids - negatives (small film box) |
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B14 |
Orchids - negatives (small black case) |
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B15 |
Photographs |
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B16 |
Dendrobium; prints and specimens |
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B17 |
Wild orchids of Southern Africa - typescript |
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C |
OTHER BOTANICAL TYPES |
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(C1-C4 and C5-D3 in oversize-box) |
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C1 |
Gasteria |
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C1.1 |
Roll of negatives |
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C1.2 |
Box of negatives |
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C2 |
Salindyk
Aloinate etc (negatives) |
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C3
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Sexta
Dissertalio Bolanica-Cavaiulles |
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C4 |
Ferns - box of negatives |
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C4.1 |
Prints of specimens (not in oversize) |
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C4.2 |
Negatives (not in oversize) |
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C4.3 |
Photographs taken in the field. Oct. 1953 (not in oversize) |
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C5 |
Botanical types in particular areas (negatives) |
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C5.1 |
Baines Kloof |
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C5.2 |
Natal |
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C5.3 |
Gorangoza |
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C5.4 |
Namib (glass plates) |
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D |
BOLUS HERBARIUM |
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D1 |
Box of negatives |
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D2 |
Box of negatives |
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D3 |
Roll of negatives |
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E |
PERSONAL |
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E1 |
Photographs and portrait of Schelpe |
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E2 |
Card |
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E3 |
Correspondence |
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E4 |
Roll of negatives (child) (in oversize-box) |
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F |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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F1 |
Studies in the Genera of the Diosmeae (Rutaceae) - by Ion Williams |
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F2 |
Unidentified papers |
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G |
UNIDENTIFIED SLIDES AND NEGATIVES |