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Catalogue description British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Fern Section Correspondence and Papers
This record is held by Natural History Museum Library and Archives
| Reference: | DF 424 |
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| Title: | British Museum (Natural History): Department of Botany: Fern Section Correspondence and Papers |
| Description: |
The series consists of the correspondence of A H G Alston, J A Crabbe and various other sectional papers, reports etc. Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF BOT/424). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 424. |
| Date: | 1930-1965 |
| Arrangement: |
The correspondence of A H G Alston is arranged alphabetically but the series as a whole has not been arranged or listed in detail. |
| Held by: | Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Publication note: |
'A H G Alston', P R Bell, Taxon, 8: 83-85 (1959). |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston (1902-1958) was the first pteridologist to work at the Museum. He joined the staff in 1930, having studied at Oxford and worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and at the Botanic Gardens in Peradeniya, Ceylon. Alston remained head of the Fern Section until his suicide in 1958, with an absence from 1939 to 1944 in the Ministry of Home Security. Alston had a special interest in the genus Selaginella, and in tropical ferns in general, and was author of many books and papers. He was President of the British Pteridological Society from 1947 to 1958. Alston was assisted from 1932 by James A Crabbe (b 1914), and succeeded in 1958 by Anthony Clive Jermy. |
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