In 1917 Council requested Bowles to collect details on the subject of frost damage due to the prolonged winter and exceptional frosts that year, in order to produce a report in the ‘Journal of the RHS’
Papers relate to Bowles’ enquiries as to temperature records and plants suffering frost damage, 1917-1919. Includes:
Section of questionnaire relating to winter temperatures, comprising question 9 only, printed: ‘How do the temperatures compare with those experienced during other winters?’ Completed in ink with temperatures and dates, one date for each year between 1907 and 1916
Correspondence, 1910-1919, including from H.J. Elwes, 1917, Harry J. Veitch, 1917, and E.G. Loder, undated. For a comprehensive list of letters in this folder, see EAB/appendix/9.8
Press cuttings, 1917
Report of East London Waterworks Company entitled ‘Engineer’s report upon the great frosts of 1895’, Jun 1895