Hortus Siccus

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              GB 235 GLE · Collection · 1927 - 2009

              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.
              Glen, Catherine F.
              GB 235 LOU · Collection · 1862

              2 folders, each containing around 40 specimens, the first being the collection curated by Great Aunt Lou - Louisa Hoby nee Russell in around 1862. The second seems to have been put together at least partly by 'DR' and includes seaweed specimens from Cumbrae.

              Russell, Louisa