File 1 - Correspondence and enclosures (Victor Westhoff and Mary O'Connor)

1 folder (c. 150 pp)

Correspondence between Professor Victor Westhoff and Tim Robinson including enclosures, listed below. Correspondence mentions Letterdyfe House, and the old Irish tree alphabet. Enclosures include:

'Man's attitude towards vegetation' V Westhoff (1983);

'Letters from the Irish Highlands', which was written by various members of the Black family in 1825;

'The Archives of the peat bogs' by Sir Harry Godwin;

'The Relationships of some bog communities in Western Galway' by D J Boatman (1960);

'The vegetation and flora of some islands in the Connemara Lakes' by D A Webb and E V Glanville (1962);

'The influence of the sea and of parent material on wetlands and blanket bog in West-Connemara, Ireland' (1975);

'Roundstone Bog: the challenges for conservation' Mary O'Connor (Botany UCG), with copy letter to O'Connor from Robinson, with queries about the term 'dubh locháin' for peat-bottomed lakes and a query about slime mould;

'The Biology of Fungi' by C T Ingold, 'Irish Myxomycetes' by B Ing and D W Mitchell;

'Vegetation succession in lakes of West Connemara, Ireland: comparing predicted and actual changes' by van Groenendael, Reopers, Woltjer and Zweers (1996);

'Soligenous influences on wetlands and blanket bog in Western Connemara, Ireland' van Groenendael, Hochstenbach, van Mansfield and Roozen (1981);

A photocopied table of plant communities of lakes in West Connemara.

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