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•Box containing papers regarding South Asia
Parkinson, Charles Edward
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•Box containing papers regarding South Asia
Parkinson, Charles Edward
•5 Handwritten letters to Isaac Bayley Balfour (1895-6)
•Handwritten letter from “Matthew B. Slater” dated April 12, 1896, to (Geo.) Stabler - regarding the publication of Dr Spruce’s final paper, “A supplement to Hepaticae of Andes and Amazon”.
•Handwritten list of Plants presented to RBGE by P. Neill Fraser 1820 – 1894.
•Handwritten list of Plants
•2 typed letters from I. Bayley Balfour to P. Neill Fraser dated Dec. 5, 1895 & Mar. 30, 1896 - including one where Fraser intends going to Jamaica to collect and would like duplicates as comparators; IBB regrets that many of the herbarium ferns had to be destroyed in 1888 due to insect damage but will provide duplicates of ones held in the herbarium. Enclose introduction to head of plantations and gardens in Jamaica.
•Correspondence, dated Mar/Apr 1905, between I. Bayley Balfour & Cairns, McIntosh & Morton, Fraser's executors, regarding the dispersal of Fraser's collections, botanical effects and books.
•Miscellaneous references - may include Correspondence relating to plants given to RBGE that were gathered between 1874-1890 from the Canaries, Azores, South America, Turkistan, South Africa and the West Indies.
•23 letters to Capt. Henderson dated between 1875 &1881 Re: Ferns filed under “Henderson, F”. Also postcard from Fraser to Major Henderson, Chichester, dated April 17, 1879 regarding a lady correspondent in Sandwich Isles [Hawaii] who sends plants and hopes to have some in return.
•M/S Notebook inscribed ”P. Neill Fraser, Canonmills Lodge, Edinburgh, Feb *, 1856” on inside fly-leaf, Containing notes and references to plants, books, indices (mainly ferns), etc. is filed with “Watt, Sir George” papers with which it had been previously included
•2 catalogues of “Exotic Ferns” Grown by P. Neill Fraser, Canonmills Lodge, Edinburgh dated Oct 1. 1871 & April 10, 1875 listing the available ferns from Canonmills Lodge, Edinburgh.
•Copy of handwritten letter from Richard Spruce to Prof. Balfour, dated 24 Aug 1892 (original with “Spruce, R”)
Fraser, Patrick Neill
Peter and Euan Cox Diaries and Notebooks
The Peter and Ewan Cox collection contains the diaries and notebooks of Peter Cox, detailing plant collecting trips undertaken from 1962 until 2012.
The collection also contains two books of rainfall measurements taken by Ewan Cox as well as one note book relating to plants ordered from Logan Botanic Gardens.
Ewan Cox – (1893-1977) - Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven (1893–1977), plant collector and gardener | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (oxforddnb.com)
Diaries
Plant Lists
1922? ‘ Plants ordered from Logan’
?
‘Rain Fall’ - accounts? 1922>1932
‘Rain Fall – 1932-42
Peter Cox – 1930s
Diaries
Turkey 1962 (unsure of author)
India 1965 (Not clear if Ewan but mentioned ‘Peter and I’ on 11th April
‘??? – 1967, Bookshop – 1976, RH. Conference – 1982’, Diary entries from Spain – 1967, requests for bookshop, names of customers? And diary entries from ‘RBG’ conference
China – 1981 – Also continues notes of seed+plants
‘Dolomites 1976’ – Unsure of author, contains entry from 15/9/1984
Nepal 1985
Bhutan – 1988
China - 1989
Sichuan – 1990
China – 1992
Contains photograph ‘Huan Rong, Lai Xuebo, Lai Han’
Yunnan SPR - 1992
Yunnan SPR – 1994
China 1995
Chile – 1996
Tibet - 1996
Yunnan – 1997
South Africa - 1998
Tibet - 1999(or 8?)
China – 1999
China – 2000
India - 2002
India 2004
China - 2007
Armenia – 2008
China - 2009
China - 2010
Georgia - 2011
China – 2012
Field notes?
‘1954>Notes’ – Author unclear
‘USA ETC’ 1974 (Continues into 1982?)
USA – 1978
‘IPPS’ – June - 1984
Nepal - 1985
China – 1986
China - 1986
Bhutan - 1988
Sichuan – 1989
China – 1990
USA - 1991
China - 1993
‘Field notes ETC 1992-4 – Yunnan, Tibet’
Tibet – 1996
China – 1997
Tibet - 1998
China – 1999
‘2000 – Base’ – Burma?
Australia/New Zealand – 2000
India – 2002
India - 2004
India – 2006
India – 2006 ‘No Field Notes’ – contains lists but no notes
China - 2007
China – 2012
‘Cult Book’ (Culture?) – 1980?
‘Seed Collected September/October 1978, Cox & Hutchinson.’ 3 pages a4, America, Mostly West Coast
‘Game Register’ – 1945-51
‘Hybrid Notes for book’
Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Davis, Peter Hadland
/1 notebook; "Noteworthy Plants at RBGE 1947"
/2 lecture notes, c.1950 - probation gardener course at RBGE
/3/1-18 exam papers taken at RBGE, 1948-1951
/4 certificate awarded at completion of course
/5 photographs taken at RBGE, 4 donated, 1 scan of Peter Michie in Palm House
/6 photograph album/notebook of shots of RBGE taken in 1930-1950 by Roland Edgar Cooper "Showing glimpses of the layout plan of 1824"
/7 "The Weather Map" - 1948 textbook used for Meteorology course
Michie, Peter
Photographs of trees and flowers by Henry Irving
•Folder containing photographs of trees, (1901), used in Percy [Groom’s] ‘Trees and their Life Histories’ (1907), found in the National Museum of Scotland. [accession 2005/08]
•Four small folders containing photos of plants and flowers, dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
•Four large folders containing photos of plants and flowers dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
Irving, Henry
Photographs taken in Yunnan China, 2003, by Leonie Paterson
•Box containing photographs of an expedition to China, and George Forrest related photographs, 2003
Paterson, Leonie
•Folder of slide collection of Icelandic Plants
•Box of slide collection of Arctic Plants
Pilling, Liz
I. See references in Rodriguez (Transit of Venus) papers, filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Rodriguez”
II. See papers filed with “PANDANUS” (mainly I.B. Balfour’s) in general index of archival material. (4 boxes)
III. Letter dated 25 June 1866 from Chas. James Meller – item 141 in bound volume, filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos.” – Box 2
IV. 12 letters dated 1875 -1876 filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers, under “Horne, F”