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  • Here are entered works on the entire continent that extends from Europe and Africa to the Pacific Ocean, including Siberia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia (excluding Papua).

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        25 Archival description results for Asia

        GB 235 FRG/8/1 · Item · 1908
        Part of George Forrest Collection

        one map used in Forrest's article describing the geography and people of the Upper Salween during his visit there with Consul George Litton in late 1905. The article was published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1908 with this accompanying map, and again by the National Geographical Society in 1910.

        Royal Geographical Society
        Peter H. Davis papers
        GB 235 RBG/2/DPH · Collection · 1944 - 1985
        Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
        • Folder of illustrations
        • Letter from J.E. Dinsmore (January 11, 1945)
        • Folder of family photographs
        • Map of Turkey (1973)
        • Folder of various loose prints and mounted photographic/artistic material
        • 2 boxes of negatives and prints
        • 2 boxes of negatives and contact prints
        • 1 box of transparencies
        • 1 box of medals
        • 3 degree certificate scrolls
        • 1 box of transparencies
        • 5 boxes of correspondence with contributors of Flora Turkey Accounts
        • 1 vol. of Turkish meteorology
        • Block of Flora of Turkey map
        • Flora Iranica funding application
        • 1 box of correspondence regarding collecting trips to Turkey: 1954, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1975, 1982, 1983.
        • Correspondence regarding collecting trips to Morocco (1970), Algeria (1971), Iran (1974), N. Africa (1975), Brasil (1976), Ghana - cancelled (1978)
        • Itineraries and maps of various plant collectors in Turkey
        • 1 box containing general correspondence regarding Flora Turkey project including:
          o SRC 1961-1976 (cost of project in that time)
          o SRC 1961-1976 (grants and claims)
          o SRC reports 1982-1985
          o NATO grants
          o Composer and EUP
          o Senior Research Fellowship
          o Box containing correspondence with Edinburgh University Press and Authors, vol.1-7 Plant geography of the Middle East
        • Flora of Turkey book reviews
        • Synopsis of costing of Flora of Turkey project
        • P.H. Davis various Articles
        • Diary of a visit to Leningrad in 1959
        • Seed and bulb lists (various) and subscribers
        • Steedman Ramage/ Curator Bonis correspondence (access restrictions apply)
        • Varia, C.V. and obituaries
        Davis, Peter Hadland
        GB 235 COX · File · 1919

        1 folder with Photocopy of personal journal of E.H.M. Cox 31st January - 29th December 1919. Covering the Burma Expedition with Reginald John Farrer (17 February 1880 – 17 October 1920)
        Remarkable account of 2 people, written between 1919 and 1920 and occasionally containing language and attitudes that would be considered offensive today; E.H.M. Cox, photographer, botanist, hunter, writer, and Reginald Farrer: botanist, painter and writer. Sail to Rangoon from Liverpool. Train and boat to Myitkyina and make base; from there they make expeditions into Kachin country with a large train of coolies, Gurkhas and Indian staff. Routine [as far as possible] seems to be gathering specimens, plants and seeds, taking photos, both glass plate and roll film, drying and pressing plants. Travelling from place to place and camping for as long as they need. Long treks in the north-east highlands climbing to 10,000 ft. and more. The diary is very closely observed and personal .The writer finds he has to do much more than the above accomplishments due to non-appearance of cooks, coolies etc. The weather plays an important part in the diary due to its erratic behaviour. Interesting that they receive pretty regular mail and both write a lot in return. British District Officers play a [generally] useful part in their plant searches. [description by SM]

        Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven
        GB 235 RJF/4 · Subfonds · 1919-1920
        Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

        A collection of 13 letters purchased at auction in 2008, written by Reginald Farrer and most likely sent to the British Diplomat Ernest Frederick Gye C.M.G., though Farrer tends to refer to him as his “Poison”, “Viper” or “Venom”.
        Gye's mother was the singer Dame Emma Albani and his father was Ernest Gye, the lessee of Covent Garden theatre. Gye entered the Foreign Office in 1903, became Second Secretary in 1908 and Councillor in 1924. He served for some years in Tehran in the earlier part of his career (and where he was when these letters were written) before being appointed Minister and Consul General in Tangier in 1933. Three years later he was made Minister Plenipotentiary in Venezuela, retiring in 1939.
        The 13 letters were written in Upper Burma (now Myanmar), mainly from Hpimaw and Nyitadi, and date between May 1919 and September 1920, the last being written only five weeks before his death. The letters are liberally peppered with nicknames and gossip, and the identity of everyone mentioned may never be known; for example, his 1919 travelling companion, fellow plant collector Euan Cox, is often referred to by the name “Jumps”. In amongst intimate information and personal references are descriptions of the country, people met and plants collected.

        Gye, Ernest Frederick
        GB 235 RJF/1/3/4-23 · Series · 1920-1987
        Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

        Folder of mainly copy letters from Reginald Farrer to Euan H.M. Cox dating between February and September 1920, some typed transcripts, all copied by Cox's son Peter in 1987, alongside associated correspondence between Peter Cox and D.M. Henderson, then Regius Keeper at RBGE, arranging to have the letters copied and stored at RBGE.

        Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
        GB 235 RJF/1/1 · Series · 1913-1920
        Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

        This box comprises mainly correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer and Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1888-1922) but there is also correspondence to/from Sir/Colonel David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes, George Redman of the Craven Nursery, and Edward Arnold.

        Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
        GB 235 RJF/1/2/1-61 · Series · 1919-1920
        Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

        Two folders relating to Farrer's second expedition to Upper Burma between 1919 and 1920 and his death there. Correspondence is mainly between Farrer and William Wright Smith, Deputy Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, but also Isaac Bayley Balfour, Lionel de Rothschild, S.R. Fasoms, and post Farrer's death, Claude Barton of the Ingleborough Estate Office, Colonel Stephenson Clarke, Euan H.M. Cox, H.M. Farrer of Farrer and Co. solicitors [dealing with Farrer's estate] and Farrer's mother, Bessie requesting coloured paintings of Gentiana farreri and Lilium farreri so that glass windows may be made up for the church in Clapham.
        There are also seed and plant lists, identifications and distribution lists to subscribers [though no list of subscribers was found].

        Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
        Reginald Farrer Collection
        GB 235 RJF · Fonds · 1880 - 2004

        The Reginald Farrer collection comprises correspondence between Reginald Farrer and his family (his mother in particular), E.A. Bowles, John Buchan, Sir Francis Younghusband, Ernest Gye, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and others as detailed below. It also includes paintings, photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides covering mainly his two plant collecting expeditions to China in 1914-15 and Burma in 1919-1920, as well as scripts for plays written by Farrer.

        Farrer, Reginald John