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Probationer Gardener at RBGE, went on to post in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Cullen was the Director of the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust.
He trained at the University of Liverpool before coming to Edinburgh where he worked at the University's Department of Botany, at which point he assisted Peter H. Davis with his Flora of Turkey. Cullen then became Assistant Keeper at RBGE and editor of the European Garden Flora.
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Created sculptures for the RBGE Arid House between 1998 and 2000.
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The Committe for the Study of the Scottish Flora was set up in 1953 to co-ordinate the activities of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (now the Botanical Society of Scotland) and the B.S.B.I. in Scotland, with each society appointing an equal number of members to the committee. In 1953, B.L. Burtt was appointed its Chairman, and Basil Ribbons its secretary. By 1976 the partnership was under-strain with the Scottish members of the B.S.B.I. eventually voting to replace the C.S.S.F. with the BSBI Committee for Scotland with a BSBI Scottish Newsletter establish to tackle communication problems. (BSBI News 138, April 2018, pp.70-1)

Bertha Chandler (Mrs. C. Norman Kemp) was the first woman to obtain the degree of D.Sc. of Edinburgh University July 1915.