Glasgow University Herbarium Card Index
- GB235 GUH
- Series
- c.1942
2 card index boxes (possibly incomplete) listing monocots from Glasgow University's Herbarium that came to RBGE on permanent loan in 1942.
Glasgow University
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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.
Glasgow University
•GB235 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.
•GB235 JAF/2: Copy of “Hints to the Amateur Gardeners of Southern India” by Andrew Thomas Jaffrey, 1860 held by the British Library.
Jaffrey, Andrew Thomas
Photographs owned by William Gregor Mackenzie relating to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
20 photographs showing the development of the Rock Garden in around 1938-39 (x17) the arrival of the large stone trough from House o'Hill for the alpine yard c.1936? (x2) and Primula reidii taken by David Wilkie
MacKenzie, William Gregor
Photographs attributed to David Sydney Fish
47 photographs / studies of members of RBGE staff, mainly gardeners / probationer gardeners, some named, but many not.
Names include David Sydney Fish (x2), W. Douglas, Murray, David Wilkie, James D. McKenzie, James Esplin, D.M. Ross, William Ritchie, H.B. Anderson, Andrew R. Cosh, Thomas Sherlock, Douglas Law, William Fernie and Alexander Reid.
Fish, David Sydney
Photographs by George T. Malthouse
3 photographs taken at RBGE by George T. Malthouse in the 1890s, all showing the transportation of trees around RBGE: Araucaria imbricata, Quercus cerris and Crataegus oxyacantha, all with gardeners around the transporter.
Malthouse, George T.
Andrew Grierson - correspondence relating to Klasea lasiocephala
Three letters and a description relating to the emergence of a new genus after some saussurea-type specimens collected by Siehe were studied and didn't fit into any genus in existence at that time. Correspondence between Andrew Grierson, Charles Jeffrey and Professor Wagenitz, and reference made to Peter Davis. October - November 1972
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium
A collection of 5 letters dating between August 1966 and June 1968 from Dr Botjah Prijanto to Mark Coode.
Prijanto, Botjah (1942-1969)
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.
McNab, Thomas
Elizabeth P. Beattie's Plant Records (card index and slides)
Literature Card Index showing references to plants found in V.C. 83, and box of around 306 35mm slides of British plants taken by Beattie.
Beattie, Elizabeth P.
David Wilkie photos in possession of Trevor Jephcott
222 black and white photographs in 13 envelopes, some of which date between 1952-1957), presumably all taken by David Wilkie of RBGE and passed to (Charles) Trevor Jephcott. The subjects are all horticultural, with two notable groups, rhododendron and campanula.
Wilkie, David