Pacard, Michel Gabriel, 1757-1827, doctor and alpinist
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- 1757-1827
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Pacard, Michel Gabriel, 1757-1827, doctor and alpinist
"Grahame, an assistant in his family’s ironmonger’s business, botanised on his own and with great dedication compiled a very useful list for a limited area around Duns which is now lodged in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh." - taken from Michael Braithwaite's 'A Short Flora of Berwickshire" (right click, open link in new tab:) https://bsbi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/Short_Flora_of_Berwickshire_2014.pdf
Fred Wood joined the RBGE in June 1947 as a labourer, and after two years became a probationer (student gardener). In 1952, now a gardener, he looked after part of the rock garden, part of the pond, and the "Natural Order Beds," which displayed the plant kingdom laid out based on George Bentham and Sir J.D. Hooker's Handbook of British Flora. Under Alf Evans as Assistant Curator, Wood worked as Botanical Foreman in charge of the rock garden, the woodland garden, and the pond. Fred Wood left the RBGE in 1966, and worked variously in West Germany, Scotland, England, and Wales. Fred Wood retired in March 1984.
created the rhododendron gates at the RBGE East Gate entrance, Inverleith
Created sculptures for the RBGE Arid House between 1998 and 2000.
(right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16949031.obituary---mo-farquharson-sculptor-known-scottish-memorial-miners/