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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.
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Items relating to the Botanic Ash Exhibition 1993
GB 235/ASH/1/1-16: 1 box of 16 mounted photographs showing the felling of the Ash tree in 1992; and
GB 235 ASH/2: part of one of the tree limbs sliced into sections by Tim Stead to show the damage done internally by fungus; tree limb sections can be arranged to form an artistic sculpture.
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Records relating to the University Botany Courses held at RBGE.
Fait partie de Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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Four photographs, each around 6cm square, showing the Palm House, the Palm Houses from the North East Corner Propagation yard, and two glasshouses interiors including the Cactus House, taken by Thomas Bartlett in around 1955. Bartlett worked for a company called Burgess & Co. of Bracknell after his National Service. The company installed large industrial boilers and he worked on their installation at RBGE.
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7 letters from Thomas McNab to his family, including his father, William McNab plus 2 photocopies of Jane McNab Petry, Thomas's daughter, and family gravestone.
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Collection of correspondence connected to George Forrest
Fait partie de George Forrest Collection
Glasgow University Herbarium Card Index
2 card index boxes (possibly incomplete) listing monocots from Glasgow University's Herbarium that came to RBGE on permanent loan in 1942.
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Artworks (formerly framed) that were in possession of John MacWatt
Fait partie de John MacWatt Primula papers
Photographic prints related to the life and work of John MacWatt
Fait partie de John MacWatt Primula papers
Documents related to the John MacWatt collection
Fait partie de John MacWatt Primula papers
