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•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.
Correspondence, Photographs, Orders, Invoices and Plans to and from Mo Farquharson, David Mitchell (RBGE), Benjamin Tindall (Architect) and Clara Govier (RBGE) outlining the ideas and plans behind the sculptural installations of animals in the new Arid House at RBGE, 1998-2000. Includes 54 photographs taken in around 1999 by Mo Farquharson showing the installed sculptures in the Arid House.
•Box containing Menzies Bequest (1842-43), miscellaneous papers, correspondence and lists. •Newspaper article titled ‘Renaissance Man’ about Archibald Menzies, celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth, from the Courier and Advertiser, 14.08.2004
•Box of personal papers and correspondence •Box of papers regarding excursions (1829-32) •Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (1834) •Box of papers regarding his North American Tour (second copies) •Box containing Tour Diaries (1836-38) •Box containing a Journal of Tours, including his Germany Tour (1839-40) •Box containing a Journal of Tours (1848) •Box of Annual Reports to Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (RCHS) for 1841 and 1842 •Box of miscellaneous papers; into this box ("box 9 of 9") has been added (June 2019) a typescript list entitled "Plants of McNab's Herbarium"; it has an old id number of 37,994, was stored in the Library Office and is dated to February 1953. It is in 4 stapled bundles (caution - be wary of staples) and lists what was presumably herbarium specimens from James McNab's collection. •Box of miscellaneous papers, including correspondence and a photograph of a tree-transplanter •Folder containing McNab’s Testimonials •Bound volume of his ‘Journal of Tour Through North America, 1834’ •Scrapbook titled ‘McNab Cuttings’ •Untitled scrap book
