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•GB 235 JAF/1: Folder containing Mary Beresford's genealogical research into Andrew Thomas Jaffrey, her Great Great Grandfather - contains biography and copies of letters and documents from numerous sources.
•GB 235 JAF/2: Copy of “Hints to the Amateur Gardeners of Southern India” by Andrew Thomas Jaffrey, 1860 held by the British Library.

REC/1: Roland Edgar Cooper – Plant Collecting paperwork, 1913-1949
REC/1/1: Notebooks, 1913-1916
REC/1/1/1: Field Books
REC/1/1/1/1-19: Sikkim, 1913; 19 books covering collection numbers 1-1023
REC/1/1/2: Plant Determinations
REC/1/1/2/1-3: Sikkim, Bhutan and Punjab, 1913-1916: notebooks covering collection numbers 1-6002 and summary sheet
REC/1/1/3: Itineraries
REC/1/1/3/1: Itinerary, Bhutan, 1914-1915
REC/1/1/4: 3 numbered notebooks
REC/1/1/4/1: No.1: includes Sikkim itinerary, June-Oct 1913; trip to Phalut (Sikkim) Oct. 1913; Notes on witchcraft in Bengal, Feb. 1914; Notes on Bhutan travels; 1914; Notes on Bhutan forest distribution, 1915; Journal of travels in Eastern Bhutan, 1915; Misc. Notes on Sikkim and Bhutan including catalogue of Bhutan photographs.
REC/1/1/4/2: No.2: Notes of Itinerary of Second Tour of Bhutan 1915
REC/1/1/4/3: No.3: includes Notes on Topography and Vegetation of Western Bhutan, (1915?); Journal and Botanical Notes, Punjab, 1916; Misc. Notes including catalogue of Punjab photographs.
REC/1/1/5: Collecting books – 3 boxes containing books used to collect and number plants in the field.
REC/1/2: Maps- Two maps relating to Cooper's plant collecting expeditions, 1908-1916
REC/1/2/1: The first map is of Sikkim, Bhutan, parts of Nepal, Tibet, Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam, dates to 1908 and is annotated with Cooper's routes and the legend, "RE Cooper, A- 1914 - Tour in Bhutan, July-August, Sept, Oct, Novr; B- 1915 - April, May, June, July, August, Sept.".
REC/1/2/2: The second map is of parts of Lahaol and Spiti of the Kangra District and Chamba, Punjab with portions of ... Kashmir, dates to 1913 and is annotated with Cooper's routes and the legend "RE Cooper's visit to Kulu and Lahaol, 1916, seed collecting for A.K. Bulley, Neston, Cheshire".
REC/1/3: Retrospective Published Writings, 1933,1949
REC/1/3/1: Cooper’s copy of "Botanical Tours in Bhutan, with Special Reference to the Occurrence of the Genus Primula", by Roland Edgar Cooper, published in Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, November 1933.
REC/1/3/2: Cooper’s copy of "Notes upon Bhutan in the Eastern Himalaya", by R.E. Cooper, published in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. 74, part 2, February 1949.

GB 235 RJF/1/5/1: letter dated Dec 6 from Reginald Farrer to Mrs Parker found in a donated copy of 'English Rock Garden' by R. Farrer.
GB 235 RJF/1/5/2: Historic England Report, 2016, on assessment of restoration of Farrer's rock garden at Clapham by Rebecca Pullan, HE Research Report Series no.7-2016
GB 235 RJF/1/5/3: Articles by Graham Avery, yet to be listed

RJF/2/4/1/1-2; Ledger and wooden box relating to the Craven Nursery and Farrer's Plant Club. The contents of the box have been left as they were and include receipts, letters, plant lists and a metal key ring? The ledger records plants dispatched and covers 1914-1921.

1 tube containing 2 certificates: Gill Memorial, May 1920, from the Royal Geographical Society; and South Kent Liberal Association, certificate of condolence after Ashford election, 1910.

GB 235 SAB/4: Publications, including reprints of articles on SABC excursions and misc. plant photographs (copies).” Index to the Qualifying Hills,” compiled by William Craig, SABC Secretary (arranged according to height and alphabetically), 2 copies; John Sadler, “Notes on a Botanical Trip to Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire, in July, 1876,” Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1877; William Craig, “Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club in August 1887, Hardanger District of Norway,” Trans. Bot. Soc., 1887–1888; Charles Stuart, “Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Club to Braemar in 1889,” Trans. Bot. Soc., 1889; “Report of Scottish Alpine Botanical Club Excursion to Teesdale and Kirkby Lonsdale, 1909,” Trans. Bot. Soc., 1910, 11 copies.

The photographs cover a wide variety of activity at RBGE and many were used in the book 'How the Garden Grew' by L. Paterson. There are student groups, work in the Rock Garden c.1938-39, the Palm House, shots around the garden including snow clearing, staff/students prior to the Second World War including Henry W. Moseley, William G. Webster, James G. Crabbe, W.S. Neil, John E.G. Beach, Ronald J. Smith and also Jack Roberts. Trip to Loch Lomond (Guild?), Laboratory Shots and Jack Roberts dressed up as the Rag Queen on May Day 1948.

Two textbooks - Haller's 'History of the Plants of Switzerland' published in 1769 and Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' published in 1775. Both include some degree of annotation or inscription.

Data Sheets, Lists and Guidance used in the 1989 Nature Conservancy Council Fresh Water Lochs Survey / South Argyll Lochan Survey.