Identity area
Reference code
GB 235 GLE
Title
Catherine F. Glen's pressed wildflowers collection
Date(s)
- 1927 - 2009 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
1 box, 30cm
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
1 Jenner's shoe box containing:
- 11 jotters of pressed wildflowers made when Catherine was 14 years old in 1927/28 for the Girls' Guildry (now the Girls' Brigade) Edinburgh 17th Coy.
- list of the flowers in the 11 jotters
- 2 letters:
--7th September 1945, Roland Edgar Cooper to Miss C.F. Glen - thank you for sending sprays of heather - RBGE hoping to propagate and name them - shorthand writing on the reverse, and the envelope has been kept.
--6th September 1948, Roland Edgar Cooper to Miss Glen acknowledging receipt of her 'very fine contribution ' of heather on the 31st August 1948. - modern photograph showing Catherine Glen in old age.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/herbarium/visiting-the-herbarium/
Conditions governing reproduction
Permission required from RBGE
Language of material
Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
This collection is kept in the RBGE Herbarium as it contains pressed flowers and is often used in demonstrations.
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Cooper, Roland Edgar (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
GLE
Institution identifier
GB 235
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
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Archivist's note
description created by L Paterson, September 2019