Affichage de 130 résultats

•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD.

•1 box of miscellaneous Fletcher correspondence (1957-61)
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence (1960 –72)
•1 box of photographs from the Scottish Daily Express

• GB 235 JJT/1: Index to Botanical References & Publications – Foolscap Book “Army Book 72”: alphabetical indexed ledger, ms. entries and ms. and typescript loose sheets (includes ms. notes to RK, William Wright Smith, on botanical references, and typescript note from W. W. Smith, 1931–1937,) 1927. Index includes lists of bibliographic references to monographs and scholarly journals, with 6 pp. listing County Reports of Scotland (1794 to 1814) and England (1794 to 1815).
• GB 235 JJT/2: “Index to Rhododendrons & Primulas”: alphabetical indexed ledger, ms. entries and ms. and typescript loose sheets (includes misc. plant notes, typescript List of Works on Primulas, and ms. list of rhododendrons), 1923.
• GB 235 JJT/3: “Index to Scottish Botanists” in “The Portland Letter File”: alphabetical indexed ledger, with ms. loose sheets, Note inserted in file: “It is quite possible that this was compiled by Mr J T Johnstone, RBG Librarian. DMH [Douglas Henderson], 1973.”

Above material, apparently prepared and used as personal reference source by J. T. Johnston, Librarian of RBGE 1912-46 and are filed under “Johnston, J.T. (Librarian)” – in individual box

c. 1000 Kodachrome slides with paper index arranged taxonomically

GB 235 GWA/1/1-2 - 'Manuscripts of some of Professor Walker Arnott's lectures, chiefly on roots and an 'Interesting historical account of the potato'', 19th century.
1st manuscript, 23 pages, covers the history of the potato and its cultivation and commercial uses, marketing and preparation for consumption. Refers to the first cultivation of the plant in Scotland in Kilsyth in 1728, and then Forfar in 1730.
2nd manuscript, 17 pages, is a continuation of the first and is devoted to many other root vegetables ranging from onions to cassava, heath pea and ginseng etc.
GB 235 GWA/2 - manuscript, 55 pages, covering the history of gardens with reference to botanic and research gardens, including a potential plan of the Royal Botanic Society of London, 19th century.
GB 235 GWA/3 - Letter from G.A. Walker Arnott to John Forbes Royale regarding the identification of plant species, written on 5th June 1837 from Arlary by Kinross. Letter refers to expectations of producing a book with Prof. Nees v Esenbeck in Germany on Himalayan plants. There is a typed transcript of this letter.
GB 235 GWA/4 - Copy of a letter from I. Bayley to Principal Barclay regarding G.A. Walker Arnott's estate/botanical collection post death, written on the 5th November 1868 alongside a copy of a letter from Bayley's son George(?) Bayley to Isaac Bayley Barclay at Glasgow University, 15 December 1880, confirming what happened to Walker Arnott's botanical collection and mahogany cabinet in 1869. Originals filed in Bayley Balfour's correspondence under G Bayley.
GB 235 GWA/5 - Copy of the biographical obituary notice of the late Dr. G.A. Walker Arnott (1868) by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn for the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.

•Collection of signatures (originals), including Carl v Linné, Archibald Menzies and initials (received with papers of Isaac Bayley Balfour).

•Map of Sikkim and a box containing photographs and negatives (1948-1950) and also a letter to Henry Noltie from D. Jeremy Wood regarding the photos (19 Jul 1995).

•Herbarium catalogues, including London and South Africa, and a collecting book from Sierra Leone

•Correspondence regarding the deposit of films and slides at RBGE
•Papers collated and donated by Christina Noble
•Correspondence
•Field books (1954-1985)
•Photographs and reprints
•Slides and cine film also held

•Box containing filed notes and lists
•Box containing photographs from China and Tibet (1911)
•Box of correspondence and lists (1919-1925)
•Box of correspondence (1926-1930)
•Box of correspondence, list and expedition information (1930-1956)