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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.

•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.

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

19 photographs, mainly of plants including orchids - Sarcochilus, Dendrobium, Spiranthes, Aeginetia, Dipodium, Impatiens and Rhododendron

Notes written after Yu's time at RBGE ; Chinese botanist Te-Tsun Yu's [T.T. Yu's] career was significant and in recognition that our records of his time at RBGE are limited, RBGE horticulturist Edward Kemp contributed to our records by producing an account of his time spent with Yu alongside a summary of his career. To this is added an assessment of the Yu herbarium written by Jimmy Keenan in the 1960s(?)

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.

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.

The 28 photographs in this series, taken by Pietro Guidi in San Remo, Italy, in the 1870s formed part of the Photographic Flora of San Remo, supervised by local pharmacist Francesco Panizzi. Each photograph has a Latin name, locality and a flowering time and som are hand coloured.

Three photographs of Park Keepers at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh featuring George Tait, donated by his family in 2026.
George Tait (1872-1950) was a Park Keeper at RBGE between 1911 and Dec.1936; he served in the Boer War and WW1; Royal Scots / 1st Gordon Highlanders.
/1 - 'Granddad Tait Britanical Gdns' - photograph of George Tait at West Gate Lodge(?)
/2 - Park Keepers, Royal Botanic Gdns, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1935, G.Tait; photograph showing seven Park Keepers at RBGE in 1935; presumably George Tait (front, right) and his colleagues, Sgt John M. Lugton, Arthur W. Hudson, Douglas Hunter, James D. Kerr, Robert M. MacLeish and Henry M. Smith.
/3 - 'Granddad Tait, Gatehouse, Botanic Gardens'; photograph showing three Park Keepers at a gate box; George Tait in the centre.
A biography of George Tait was provided by his family; kept with accession records.

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.