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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Ian C. Hedge Collection</titleproper>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives</publisher>
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          <addressline>Library,<lb/>Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,<lb/>20a Inverleith Row</addressline>
          <addressline>Edinburgh</addressline>
          <addressline>EH3 5LR</addressline>
          <addressline>Telephone: 0131 2481036</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: lpaterson@rbge.org.uk</addressline>
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        <date normal="2015-01-16" encodinganalog="date">2015-01-16</date>
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        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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      <unitdate normal="1928/2007" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1928 - 2007</unitdate>
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        <extent>4 boxes of correspondence &amp; index cards. 1 Folder of digitised photographs</extent>
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        <corpname>Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives</corpname>
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          <addressline>Library,<lb/>Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,<lb/>20a Inverleith Row</addressline>
          <addressline>Edinburgh</addressline>
          <addressline>EH3 5LR</addressline>
          <addressline>Telephone: 0131 2481036</addressline>
          <addressline>Email: lpaterson@rbge.org.uk</addressline>
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      <note type="generalNote">
        <p> http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000151704 (right click to open in new tab or window - recommended)
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        <persname id="atom_2043_actor">Hedge, Ian Charleson</persname>
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      <p>published</p>
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      <p>•Box of correspondence compiled by Ian C. Hedge regarding Flora of West Pakistan – mainly B.L. Burtt and J. Lamond. 7 folders including: File no. SD3015 – Pakistan Botany, Letters from 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and accounts and drawings not yet published in 1973-85. Correspondence includes E. Nasir, A. Ghafour, S. Abedin, S. Jafri, S.I. Ali, D. Austin, R. Ahmad, M. Qaiser. S.M.A Kazmi, M.H. Bokhari, S. Ahmad Khan<lb/>•Box correspondence regarding Flora Iranica – Umbelliferae, 1980-86. Correpsondence includes: K.H. Rechinger, A. Ala, R. Alava, A. Aryavand, V. Botschantzev, L. Constance, L. Engstrand, W. Frey, C. Heyn, V. Heywod, R. Hoffman, J. Leonard, M.G. Pimenov, D. Podlech, C. Townsend.<lb/>•Folder of digitised Afghan photographs and some negatives.<lb/>•Box of correspondence, including K.H Rechinger, P.Wendelbo, W.T. Stearn, E.E. Kemp, R.R. Stewart,etc. plus Afghanistan photography, donated 11th of February 2007<lb/>•Hedge's undergraduate dissertation: 'The History and Anatomy of Dryas octopetala (L.)'; May 1951<lb/>•Wooden box containing index cards from Hedge’s Archives<lb/>•Toy Corgi Landrover annoteted 'Afghanistan 1968' along with 3x Afghan coins and 1x Scottish golf token [Bells Whisky] (RBGEA2020/006) - the Landrover was such a key member of the Afghanistan expedition team, that in 1962 Ian named a plant after it: Scrophularia landroveri (there is a scan of the herbarium specimen included in the box) and Ian has kept a toy model of the vehicle ever since 1968 presumably, until he donated it to the RBGE Archives in September 2019. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/20869 (right click to open in new tab or window- recommended)</p>
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      <p>Copies of many of Ian Hedge's published articles can be found in the RBGE Library reprints collection.</p>
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      <p>Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/</p>
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      <p>Permission required from RBGE</p>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">An Album of Wild Flowers [cigarette cards], Second Series</unittitle>
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          <unitdate normal="1930/1930" encodinganalog="3.1.3">1930</unitdate>
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            <extent>1 album</extent>
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            <corpname>Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives</corpname>
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              <addressline>Library,<lb/>Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,<lb/>20a Inverleith Row</addressline>
              <addressline>Edinburgh</addressline>
              <addressline>EH3 5LR</addressline>
              <addressline>Telephone: 0131 2481036</addressline>
              <addressline>Email: lpaterson@rbge.org.uk</addressline>
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            <persname id="atom_2226_actor">Hedge, Ian Charleson</persname>
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          <p>published</p>
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          <p>1 album of cigarette cards depicting wild flowers compiled by Ian Hedge</p>
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          <p>filed along with Ian Hedge's archives</p>
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          <subject>Wills's Cigarettes</subject>
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          <p>not bad, some foxing</p>
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