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Copy probate will of Thomas Pyke of Cambridge, (1708, proved 1709), with related papers.

Includes copy contract for building stables at White Horse Inn, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, 1815.

Note: after a long dispute with King's College, the White Horse Inn and a small piece of land at the south-east corner of Old Court were exchanged for part of Butt Close (now the Fellows' Garden) in 1823.

This series of records relates to the Pyke Scholarship, settled on the White Horse Inn, Cambridge and later on Butt Close (the Fellows Garden).

Correspondence from various individuals relating to the publishing of material by Forbes or the publishing of material that Forbes reviewed before being published. Also includes notes and comments from individuals on Forbes' work.

Printed copies with some revised editions - 1861, 1878, 1882, 1898, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1956, 1958, 1968, 1989.

Comprising ''A short flora of Cambridgeshire, chiefly from an ecological standpoint, with a history of its chief botanists'' (Cambridge, 1911), and J. Stanley Gardiner and A. G. Tansley (eds.), ''The natural history of Wicken Fen (Cambridge, 1923), including articles on Fens and their plants, with map and terrier of National Trust property, all apparently by Evans.

Comprising:

(1) 'On the diffraction of light produced by an opaque prism of finite angle' (offprint from Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 1904)

(2) 'Note on a paper by W. Makower entitled 'On the method of transmission of the excited activity of Radium to the cathode' ' (from Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, 1905)

Comprising:

(1) ''Phenylbromacetic acid...'' (offprint from Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1891)

(2) ''The resin acids of the Coniferae. Part I. The constitution of abietic acid'' (Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1904)

(3) With Victoria University College University of N. Z. The Foundation Professors (Wellington, New Zealand, 1934), containing portraits and biographies of Easterfield and 3 other professors, with covering letter, 1935.

Comprising the following offprints:

(1) three from the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1904, 1907 and 1910

(2) fifteen from Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1905-1907 and 1909-1912

(3) two from Annual Reports of the Chemical Society, 1907 and 1909

(4) five (all by Sir James Dewar and Jones) from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1905, 1907-1908 and 1910-1911

(5) with Claude Wilson and Humphrey Owen Jones, ''Climbs from Courmayeur'' (reprint from The Alpine Journal, 1911)

Comprising:

(1) Three offprints from the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1883 and nd [1884 or later]

(2) Two offprints from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1883

(3) One offprint from Sachs, Arbeiten des botanischen Instituts in Wurzburg, nd [after 1883]

(4) One offprint from Annals of Botany, 1887

Comprising:

(1) 'Amber' and 'On the natural forms which have suggested some of the commonest implements of stone, bone and wood' (2 copies). Both reprints from The Archaeological Journal, 1901

(2) 'The Cambridgeshire dykes'. Reprint from the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1913

(3) 'Marathon'. Reprint from The Classical Review [nd]