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Fonds FOA - Adam Forman Sphagnum Moss papers and photographs
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- 1916 - 1918 (Creation)
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The collection was categorised and arranged as follows:
GB235 FOA/1 Photographs
GB235 FOA/2 Forman’s Reports
GB235 FOA/3 Later Additions (photocopied reports, articles, poem)
FOA/1 Photographs
FOA/1/1 Album: ‘Moss Photographs’, photograph album, 92 b&w photos depicting the gathering and preparation of Sphagnum moss, many taken outside of Craigielands, home of the Forman family.
FOA/1/2 Loose photographs, mainly Duplicates from ‘Moss Photographs,’ approx. 70 b&w photos
FOA/2 Forman’s Reports
FOA/2/1 “Memo re Gathering” by Rev A. Forman, Craigielands, Beattock, June 1918, carbon copy, 6 pp.
FOA/2/2 Reports on 12 gathering areas, carbon copy with ms. Annotations - by Mr Archer?
FOA/3 Later Additions
FOA/3/1 Report on Sphagnum Areas, W.W. Smith, RBGE, 1916, photocopy.
FOA/3/2 Prof. George E. Nichols, “Sphagnum Moss: War Substitute for Cotton in Absorbent Surgical Dressings,” pp. 221–235, Annual Report Smithsonian Institution, 1918, photocopy.
FOA/3/3 “Sphagnum Moss,” poem by A.M.S. - photocopy
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- English
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For information on the Forman family, including a family tree, see Denis Forman, Son of Adam (London: Andre Deutsch, 1990).
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- Forman, Adam (Creator)
- Smith, Sir William Wright (Subject)