•Box containing accounts, minutes book and miscellaneous correspondence
•Box containing circulars and miscellaneous correspondence
•Box containing letters from subscribers
•Box containing miscellaneous correspondence and plant lists by Andrew Murray
1 folder of project publication and photograph by Corinne McDonough.
Corinne was a 4th year photography student at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2014 and involved in a project looking at the need for libraries, human interactions with objects and behind the scenes views. She visited RBGE on the 20th March 2014 to take photographs, 3 of which ended up in the project publication, Ordo Librorum. This publication (1), one of the photographs (2) and two publicity cards (3) are in this small collection.
Collection currently comprising two folders, more expected. Olive's field books are currently held in Burtt collection.
Hilliard, Olive- Three passports
- B.L. Burtt’s Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, p.14, (7th of June 2008)
- Two boxes of B.L Burtt’s notebooks
- Three boxes containing reprints and annotated working copies of various journals and articles
- in 2019 a folder of biographical information, including 3 photographs, compiled by Henry Noltie was added to the collection. It includes the obituaries and biographical articles Henry wrote, plus other obituaries, articles about Bill, and memories by him and about him.
1 box of Ness correspondence between Balfour and Bulley (1896-1921)
Bulley, Arthur Kilpin (1861-1942)8 glass lantern slides showing images of Meconopsis taken by Mrs Knox-Finlay at Keillour Lake, Keillour Castle:
Meconopsis
Meconopsis x musgravei
Meconopsis sherriff 600
Meconopsis grandis 600
Meconopsis grandis (true)
Meconopsis coxiana
Meconopsis betonicifolia praetensis
Meconopsis beamishii
•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:
- Diary Materials 1, 1949
- Diary Materials 2, 1949
- Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
- letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
- Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
- small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
- cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
- 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
- newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
- 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow
•8 boxes of papers
•1 box of Botanical notebooks
•2 boxes of Biographical Index, divided A-J and K-Z
•Box containing notes and correspondence on Australia and the South Pacific Islands; 3 folders;
- correspondence relating to Alexander Morrison's bequest, 1913-1915
- folder of manuscript notes relating to the flora of Western Australia, e.g. 'Salt bushes and their cultivation'
- folder of manuscript notes relating to the flora of the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] and South Pacific Islands, e.g. 'Notes on a botanising Tour in the New Hebrides'
10 folders of papers, and survey sheets relating to Monty Faithfull's survey work on Bass Rock (square 6087), Birk Cleugh Hill (square 6665) and Dunglass / Bilsdean (squares 7671 and 7672). Includes maps and was donated to RBGE in August 2022 by Monty's son John Faithfull along with Monty's herbarium specimens. Unfortunately, some of the herbarium specimens had to be destroyed as they were in a degraded state- there are scans of these amongst the papers, taken by RBGE Herbarium assistant Lesley Scott who transferred the papers to the Archives in March 2023.
- Bass Rock (square 6087) folders x 3; maps and diagrams (includes photographs taken by Faithfull and a collection of old postcards showing Bass Rock); 'Various docs' and Botany of the Lothians, 1982-, final survey sheets.
- Birk Cleugh Hill (square 6665) folders x 2; Old records now transferred, 1993, and Bot Soc Survey, Final Species Lists.
- Dunglass folder - 'Individual Dunglass Plant Records, 78-94 - includes correspondence regarding Mertensia.
- Dunglass Mains Estate (square 7671) folders x2; Old records, transferred, 1994; and Bot Soc Survey Final Species Lists
- Dunglass / Bilsdean (square 7672) folders x2; Old records; and Bot Soc Survey Final Species Lists