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Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
This is a series created by bringing known sets of lecture notes, usually taken by students attending Botany lectures at the University of Edinburgh provided by the Regius Keeper of the RBGE who usually also held the post of Professor of Botany. Many of these books will have been acquired by Isaac Bayley Balfour.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Records relating to the University Botany Courses held at RBGE.
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, no. XII and XIII
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, no XII and XIII, published in November 1904 and containing information on the principal gardeners at RBGE, mainly John Williamson, Malcolm McCoig, Robert Menzies, John Mackay and George Don. The bulk of the document comprises George Claridge Druce's memoir 'The Life and Works of George Don' followed by Appendices A-E. Appendices F, G and postscript are in the following volume.
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Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, no. XIV
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, no. XIV, published in February 1905. This volume comprises the last two appendices of George Claridge Druce's memoir on George Don's Life and Work, Appendices F and G, and the postscript.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Two copies of the Notes of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, comprising numbers XII, XIII and XIV, November 1904 and February 1905 containing, amongst information about RBGE's Principal Gardeners, George Claridge Druce's account of George Don's life and work.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
University of Edinburgh Botany Class Lists, Indices and Registers
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
The lists consist of a series of registers, lists and indices relating to the Edinburgh University Botany and Practical Botany classes held at RBGE.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
University of Edinburgh Botany Class Indices
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
University of Edinburgh, Botany Class, Other Registers
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
University of Edinburgh Botany Class Registers
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
