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1 Manuscript. Handwritten. 3 parts stitched together.

This is a copy of John Leigh's listing (in his own hand) of the contents of his herbarium. John Leigh (1812-1888) was the first Medical Officer for Health in Manchester and corresponded with Lydia Becker (1827-1890).

[Part 1 TITLE] '[...]tish plants [...] Herbarium of [ ]gh, Sandiway House Wally Range Manchester'

The entries arranged in alphabetical order under letter headings, beginning with 'Anemone nemorosa' and ending with 'Berbena officianalis.'

19pp.

[Part 2 TITLE, in pencil] 'Desiderata | November 8th 1873'
262 entires numbered by Leigh, at around 30 entires per page. The entries on the first 4 pages are rated from 'not rare' to 'very rare'. Additional entires on penultimate page, with the last page carrying a list of 'Grases'

10pages

[Part 3, TITLE] 'Desiderata | J. Leigh'

4 pages

This herbarium listing is mentioned in a paper co-authored by M. Gibby: Antonovics, J., Gibby, M. and Hood, M.E., 2021. John Leigh, Lydia Becker and their shared botanical interests. Archives of Natural History, 48(1), pp.62-76.

Cited as: “Desiderata, November 8th, 1873”. Undated MS in John Leigh’s handwriting in personal possession of JanisAntonovics. Online copy “John Leigh (1812–1888) Herbarium listing”, University of Virginia Dataverse, V1. Availableat: https://doi.org/10.18130/V3/N6ODLJ

Manuscript titled 'Localities for New or Rare Mosses in Scotland'.
The names Alexander McKinlay, James Stirton and John Shaw are mentioned as collectors in the manuscript, alongside three dates, 1861, 1864 and 1868. Although not definite, the handwriting in the documents compares very favourably to that of James Hardy (1815-1898), Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club and compiling a work on Mosses of Berwickshire at the end of the 1860s.

Sanderson's Prize essay manuscript, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’, submitted in July 1849 as part of his Botany course for his Medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson has illustrated the manuscript with pencil illustrations drawn from the microscope.
Impressed by the content, Hutton Balfour deemed it worthy of a prize, with part of the content read at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in February 1850.

• WEH/1: Bound manuscript titled 'China: Wilson's journeys for Arnold Arboretum, 1907, 1908, 1910' containing numbered list of plants with descriptions and names (but no locations). Case binding with marbled end-papers. Printed label on front end-paper: Knapp, Drewett & Sons Ltd., Account book manufacturers, printers, lithographers & stationers, Kingston-Upon-Thames and branches. Book looks to have been obtained by RBGE in 1942.
(right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78783&query_desc=an%3A11168 (library acc: ECDO1)
• WEH/2: Folder containing a list of E.H.Wilson's Seeds from China - list compiled at RBGE from information found in the Plant Incoming Register: "Outdoor Department 1-02 to 10-12", seed sent to Edinburgh by John Stirling Maxwell in 1907
•Three folders containing three prints of Flora of Western China Kew herbarium specimens collected by E.H. Wilson (specimens on loan from Kew, photographed at RBGE) - these to be added to RBGE Archive's 'Plant Portrait Prints' collection.

2 volumes of unpublished manuscript produced by Janet Rae in the early 1980s. George MacDougall may have typed the manuscripts. The idea was to produce something similar to a book already published, but it was considered too expensive and that there was not enough demand to publish this one. The manuscript does include illustrations, including at least one original pen and ink sketch by Alan McGillveray, and constitutes a description of Edinburgh's changing landscapes in c.1983.
The accession also includes 2x 2020 calendars marking the Society's 150th anniversary in 2019.

7 page draft manuscript. Typed/Handwritten.

By Dr. J.F. O'Hara entitled: "Dickonia lathami cultured in vitio" Has been edited in pen.

Was enclosed with letter from J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (14 Jan 1984)

Attached to letters:

• From R.E. Holttum to M. Gibby (15 Nov 1984)
• From J. Aldred to A.C. Jermy (20 Dec 1984)
• From A.C. Jermy to J. Aldred (n.d. Jan 1986)

1 manuscript. Typed with handwritten annotations in red ink.

[TITLE] Asplenium x Sarniense: A Cytological Enigma? by Paloma Cubas & Anne Sleep