Subject strengths: Science, Travel

This is a small collection of notebooks and photograph albums which belonged to John William Heslop Harrison (1881-1967), at one time Professor of Botany at Newcastle University. The notebooks contain notes on plant biology, pollination and plant genetics while the albums include photographs of Iraq, dated 1938-1941. The collection also includes Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical Society 1955-1956 in various stages of editing.

Collection Name and Collection Reference Code:

Collection Name: Heslop Harrison (John) Notebooks and Albums

Archive Ref Code: GB186/HH 

Date Range of Material

1930 - 1999

Type of Material

Personal notebooks and albums of John William Heslop

Size of Collection

2 Linear Metres of shelving

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