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51_66 Cambridge, England Rooms, because of the Commons Room being occupied with the matter of refreshments for the guests at the evening reception. The reception was extremely crowded. One of the men I talked with was H.N. Ridley (Malay Penninsula man) who discoursed on the pink blotting paper, so commonly used in Britain. It was formerly made from madder rags, that is rags or cloth I take it dyed with Rubus tinctoria. Madder rags could not be used for white paper because in that early day they had no way of getting out the red. So these rags were used for blotting paper. Nowadays wuch a shift is not necessary, but that color is still used. Paper is also made from rubber, he said, and indist- [indistinguishable] |
51_67 Aug. 16, 1930 [indistinguishable] from ordinary writing paper except by "one who knows." Went to the Botanic Garden this Sunday morning with W.R. Maxon. He discoursed specially on the ferns in the two fern houses. A fern that took my eye: Adiantum peruvianum with giant leaflets! An extraordinary plant, taller than a man with gigantic roundish simple leaves was said to be Gunnera Before going to the garden J.H. Burkill took us on tour around several of the colleges. He told us the story of the early professors of botany, the elder Martyn, the younger Martyn (who held the living but did not even reside in Cambridge) and Sir J.E. Smith, founder of the Linnean Society, who seeing |
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