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BC 234 BOLUS PAPERS CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION Biographical note i The Collection ii A BOLUS FAMILY 1 B BOLUS HERBARIUM 3 C BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE 1859-1968 4 D BOTANICAL DRAWINGS 19 E PLANT LISTS, BOTANICAL REGISTERS, COLLECTING 19 DIARIES F PHOTOGRAPHS 21 G MISCELLANEOUS 21 THE COLLECTION Personal and biographical information about Harry Bolus and his family can be found in Section A, as well as their individual plant lists and drawings. The major part of the Collection consists of botanical correspondence from South African botanists and from others all over the world to Harry Bolus and his niece H M L Bolus, and to the Bolus Herbarium at the University of Cape Town, after it was established there. There is also a large section of botanist's lists, registers and collecting diaries. Biographical information on Bolus Herbarium staff members and details of salary scales, work records, diaries etc are in Section B. Most of the staff biographies were compiled by Mrs M R Levyns. Harry Bolus's Herbarium Library Catalogue 1865-1911 is also in this section. Photographs of the Bolus family and their home 'Sherwood' in Kenilworth, and of many of the botanists, whose correspondence and plant lists are in the collection, are in Section F. See also 'The Bolus Herbarium and Library 1865-1985 by Diana Rex in Jagger Journal No. 5, 1984/85 I N T R O D U C T I O N BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Harry Bolus was born in Nottingham, England in 1834. He came out to South African in 1850 as an assistant to William Kensit, a trader of Grahamstown, whose sister Sophia, he afterwards married. After a period in Port Elizabeth, they went to Graaff Reinet where H B worked for an insurance and trust company until 1874. In 1875 he joined his brother, Walter, in Cape Town as a partner in Bolus Brothers, Stockbrokers. An earlier interest in botany had been rekindled by Prof F Guthrie of Graaff Reinet and with great dedication H B acquired an extensive knowledge of the subject. He journeyed throughout South Africa, studying the flora, especially that of the Cape Colony and encouraging correspondence from people who were interested in the plants of their own areas. In this way knowledge of South African flora was greatly increased. Frequent visits were made to Kew in England, taking supplies of botanical specimens for study and comparison, his own particular interests being orchids and Cape heaths. About these he wrote a number of articles and works, including that on the Ericaceae for Harvey and Sonder's 'Flora Capensis' and many treatises on orchids. Bolus bursaries did much to encourage the study of botany and in his will H B left his herbarium and botanical library to the University of Cape Town, providing for their upkeep and expansion. The Chair of Botany was named in his honour in 1917. Harriet Margaret Louisa (Kensit) Bolus became curatrix of the Bolus Herbarium, serving it devotedly for nearly 60 years, and even after her retirement, until her death in 1970. For more than 10 years, before her uncle's death in 1911, she had been his secretary and companion as well as his assistant in his herbarium and library. She was herself a botanist of international repute, with special interests in mesembryanthemum and Erica. BC 234 BOLUS PAPERS A BOLUS FAMILY A1-A14 HARRY BOLUS A1 Biographies Personal papers Sketch books - not botanical Diploma from Royal Botanic Society 1905 (OVERSIZE) Tributes after his death A2 Diaries and notebooks 1849-1908 incl. notes on Burchell's Catalogus Geographicus A3 Diaries: - Trips to Namaqualand 1883, Delagoa Bayto Pretoria 1886, Cape Town to England 1881-1911, European trips 1888, 1893, 1900. Cape Town Botanical Gardens Record Book 1881-91. (H B on committee) Family correspondence: To and from H.B., his wife Sophie, brother Walter, Alfred etc. For the bulk of correspondence with H M L (Lulu), Ethel, Hermann, Frank see their individual sections Letterbook H.B. 1872-90 A4 Personal correspondence (not family) General file A-Z 1869-1910 Individual files: - Clark, Prof. John 1904-05 - poems Fremantle, Prof. H E S 1902-08 Guthrie, Fred 1891-1899 Hughes, Arthur 1904-16 Morgan, C Lloyd 1883-1911 Notcutt, Prof. H Clement and Mrs Lilian 1906-33 Standen, Lilian 1902-11 Standen, Mr 1898 A5 Business correspondence 1865-1911 Graaff Reinet and Cape Town Accounts Book 1870's A6-A14 Botanical work - Harry Bolus A6 Orchids. Mss and drawings A7 MS of H.B.'s part of Bolus and Guthrie's work on Erica for Flora Capensis Vol. 4, Section 1, 1909 A8 MS of "A Sketch of the Floral Regions of S Africa" A9 Geographical Distribution of Plants Ms of "Flora of the Cape Peninsula" A10 Collecting diaries Nos 1-3, 1865-1898 A11 Collecting diary No 4, 1898-1909 " Plant lists 1904 - Kew Botanical lists - incl. Graaff Reinet district Maps Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to Great Karasberg 1912-13 - preliminary report MS notes for 1st Wild Flower Protection Act Description of Eulophia Tuberculata Botanical notes and plant lists ca 1869-93 List of cultivated plants Satyrium notes Address; Objects of the Graaff Reinet Athenaeum 1867 'A Trip to Princess Vlei' [1880's] A12 The Birds of South Africa - Layard ( H B's copy) A13-14 Botanical drawings and notebooks - H B A15-A18 H.M.L. LULU (KENSIT) BOLUS A15 Personal papers Biographical information 4 certificates (OVERSIZE) incl. BA 1902, Hon. DSC from Stellenbosch Univ. 1936 Bolus and Kensit family trees Personal correspondence - General folder A-Z. see also individual folders in A16, A17. A16 Personal correspondence - individual folders A-N Bolus, Frank 1917-35 Brookes, Gertrude 1956, 1965-68, mostly undated Crewe, Olive and Colin 1924-68 Edwards, Gertrude - see Lewis, Cecil Fremantle, Isabella 1920-35 Kensit, Edward George (Pansy) 1915-16 Lewis, Cecil 1929-48 and Edwards, Gertude 1929-54 Marsden, W M 1937-51 Nortier, Peter and Agatha 1948-54 Oliver family - Winifred, Ethel, Prof, F W etc. 1883-1955 A17 Oliver, Winifred, (ctd) 1936-55 Schreiner, Olive and Cronwright 1920 and 1922 Shipton, Floss 1911-15, 1945 Smith, Agatha, Esther, Bessie and their mother Elizabeth ca 1908-69 Smuts, J C and Isie 1936, 1944 (See also J C Smuts in Section C) Wolfe, Doreen and her children. 1925-63 A18 Lulu Bolus' botany courses at Kirstenbosch 1920 Notes on Mesembryanthemums and Allied Genera. Part II Articles on Silver Trees and birds Botanical drawings MLB Assorted publications found with her papers - botanical and other Haworth, A.H. – copies of some of his articles copied out by Miss Ina de Jager and bound by UCT Bindery for Dr. H.M.L. Bolus to mark her 90th anniversary, 31.7.1967 A19 FRANK BOLUS Diaries 1899-1900, 1918-25, 1926-45 Business papers re work in Mafeking 1899-1900 Notebook of altitudes in S Africa 1870-1945 6 botanical drawings Personal correspondence with his family 1880's-1910 Miscellaneous correspondence 1924-43 Letters of sympathy to his wife, on his death 1945 A20-A21 HERMANN BOLUS A20 Letters to his parents, 1880-81, 1889-1911 and to other family members Scrapbooks 1880's-1911 - includes Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifle Regiment during Basuto war. See also scrapbook in A21 MAXWELL BOLUS - Son of Hermann Letters 1914-15 incl. 1st S A aerial post postcard 27 Dec.1911 and clipping A21 Scrapbook - Hermann Bolus 1880's-1930 A22 ETHEL BOLUS Personal papers Certificates. Photographs Diary of European trip 1888 Notebooks- botany 1884, finances 1886-87 Correspondence with her parents 1880's-1890 Letters of condolence to her parents on her death 1890-91 B1-B4 BOLUS HERBARIUM 1915 – c.1972 B1 Staff, staff salaries, some correspondence, finances records, library lists, miscellaneous Botanical articles, mainly by M R Levyns, who also wrote most of the staff biographies (See also BC 625 Section D- Mrs M R Levyns) Biographical notes and cuirriculum vitae of: - Mrs H M L Bolus, Dr E A C L E Schelpe, Mrs M R Levyns, Miss E L Bolus, P MacOwan, J F Drege, Stephens, H H W Pearson, Harry Francis Guthrie, W H Harvey Articles by Mrs M R Levyns: - Report on the reduction division in the pollen mother cells of Primula Sinensis 1915 Some South African plants which have found a place in the gardens of the world Wild Flowers of the Cape 1972 A True Fire Lily Paranomus - A Proteaceous genus with an unfortunate nomenclature history Sixty years with the Botanical Dept. of UCT Reviews by M R Levyns: - Northern Cape Sandveld Flowers by Hilda Mason 1972. Text by Enid du Plessis Ferns of the Witwatersrand by F D Hancock and A Lucas Illustrations by B Pike and P L Edkins Ericas in Southern Africa by H A Baker and E G H Oliver Illustrations by I von Below, Fay Anderson and Co. Reviews and correspondence re M R Levyns "Guide to the Flora of the Cape Peninsula" Bolus Herbarium staff - salaries 1930's - 1940's Herbarium Library lists and correspondence 1950's Work records 1938 Picture clippings of Herbarium B2 Bolus Herbarium visitors books 1940-64 B H Diary Feb. 1914. - Nov. 1918 B Carter - Diary Oct. 1935 Parcels despatched and received 1902-43 B3 Harry Bolus' Herbarium Library Catalogue - 2 vols. ca 1865-1911 Inventory of Bolusiana B4 Genera in Bolus Herbarium (very early) Index - New species of S A Plants 1895-1920, 1921-40 Petty cash book C BOTANICAL CORRESPONDENCE with Bolus Herbarium A-Z Abernethy, Constance 1901-04 Abernethy, Olive 1946-53 Acocks, John P H 1945-48 Adamson, Joy 1947 Adlam, R W (+ plant list 1885-91) Administrators Office, Cape Town 1933-36 Advisory Board of Industry and Science 1919 Albany Museum Herbarium, Grahamstown, 1918-43 (see also, Schonland, S) Allen, Alice 1909 Allen, Eve and Keith, 1940-61 Allen, C.P.T.