Identity area
Reference code
Yapp
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1890-1936 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
5 boxes paper and photographs, 21 boxes glass plate negatives
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Admitted 1895, BA in Natural Sciences (first class) in 1899. Elected Frank Smart student in Botany at Gonville and Caius College in 1899. MA 1903. Botanist to the University expedition to the Siamese Malay States 1899-1900. Curator of University Herbarium 1900-03. Professor of Botany University College Aberystwyth 1904-14; Queens University Belfast 1914-19; Birmingham University 1919-29. President of the Ecological Society 1921. Married 1913 Lajla, daughter of Dr Klintberg of Visby , Gothland, Sweden and had issue.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Given by RHY's grandson, Christopher Fletcher 2019-2022.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers include a diary of a trip to South Africa in 1905, family correspondence, offprints of papers, and press cuttings. The photographic collections include two photograph albums, loose prints, soft negatives, and over 700 glass plate negatives.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Correspondence was arranged thematically by Yapp's family; glass plate negatives retain Yapp's original classification.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Preferred citation: R.H. Yapp Collection.