Correspondence and papers of Roy Lancaster: folder labelled 'Tasmania 88'

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Correspondence relating to a botanical tour of Tasmania, Australia, organised by Raoul Moxley Travel and led by Roy Lancaster, Jan-Feb 1988. Includes maps and guides for the itinerary, list of tour participants, suggested reading list, papers relating to tour arrangements and travel to Australia, manuscript notes by Roy Lancaster relating to tour arrangements, local contacts and expenses, manuscript tour diary by Roy Lancaster including the outbound stop-over in Singapore, typescript list of seed collected on the tour, annotated by Roy Lancaster and manuscript list of Tasmanian plants, and newspaper articles

Includes correspondence with David Richmond of Devonport, Tasmania, relating to the establishment of the Tasmanian Arboretum and to the Tasmania tour, 1970s-1980s, including photograph of a nature trail in Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, 1987, Raoul Moxley, 1987, Margaret Allan of the Society for Growing Australian Plants (SGAP), Tasmania, [later the Australian Plant Society Tasmania Incorporated], 1980s, Allan Flood of Hobart, Tasmania, 1988, Tim McManus of Hobart, 1991, Gertrude Marsh Looi, Singapore, 1986, and A.P. May [Tony May] of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart, 1987

Includes copies of the newsletter of the Tasmanian Arboretum, Sep 1984-Sep 1987, the fourth Annual Report of the Arboretum, Jul 1988, 'Austraflora Newsletter', Jan 1988, plant list for an Australian cottage garden produced by Austraflora Nurseries, undated, project paper to establish a collection of Tasmanian endemic plants for the Australian bicentenary in 1988, undated, copy of 'Australian Wildflowers' by N. McLeod and A. Skinner, 1984, manuscript notes relating to tour itinerary by David Richmond, undated, typescript report of a tour of Tasmania, author unidentified [sketched map on front of report is in David Richmond's hand], 1985, photocopied extract from 'Wild Flowers of the Great Dominions of the British Empire', 1935, 'Botanic Magazine' of the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, spring 1987, report from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania, relating to plant communities of the Douglas River region, Dec 1983, 'Australian Garden Journal', Aug-Sep 1987, typescript botanical notes relating to part of the 1988 tour itinerary in eastern Tasmania, annotated by Roy Lancaster, 1988, and itinerary for proposed International Dendrology Society tour of Tasmania, 1995

These papers were originally housed in a single folder which was repackaged into two folders

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