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A collection of 5 letters dating between August 1966 and June 1968 from Dr Botjah Prijanto to Mark Coode.
Sin títuloPersonal communication between Roger West and Ian Murray M.P. regarding outbreak of Ash Dieback Disease, Chalara fraxinea - includes Parliamentary question and small report.
Sin títuloPaper on 'Experiments on the Analysis of Heavy Inflammable Air' (1789) published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1780 - (right click, open link in new tab) https://archive.org/details/jstor-106830 - there is a copy of the paper in the packet alongside the handwritten manuscript, possibly written by Austin himself. Manuscript is incomplete, 8 pages along, finishing on page 56 of the article. There is also a copy of Austin's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography in the packet.
Sin títuloLiterature Card Index showing references to plants found in V.C. 83, and box of around 306 35mm slides of British plants taken by Beattie.
Sin títuloBox of correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour, to be added to Isaac Bayley Balfour's correspondence collection in due course.
There is a reference to John MacWatt and Lilian Snelling in letter 11 from 1915 (Snelling also in letters 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 24, 29, 36, 38, 40 - and again throughout 1916. Refs to Snelling coming to Edinburgh and Mrs Balfour getting her lodgings in November 1917. Ref to Snelling attending IBB's lectures, April 1918
Letter from Dr Homi (Yasuyoshi) Shirasawa in 1910.
27 Sept 1913 - reference to Robert Moyes Adam's private work
31 Aug 1914 - reference to Isaac Bayley Balfour's thoughts on photography versus botanical illustrations
26 April 1915 - reference to Inverleith House being commandeered for military purposes
6 May 1915 - referreing to Snelling and Moyes Adam, "She is undoubtedly very clever - a fine colourist. I have given instructions to my photographer to photograph everything she does on the day she draws it so that we may have a sun picture of what she has drawn"
references to Col. F. Bailey's wounds, 1915
15 June 1915 - reference to L.B. Stewart enlisting
1915, 41 - copy letter from G.H. Cave
Gunnera Nature Print and article relating to it (Gardenwise, v.48, Feb. 2017). The print was produced by Michele Rodda with help from Dr. Henry Noltie during the Flora Malesiana Symposium held at RBGE in July 2016.
Sin títuloAround 40 ledgers were transferred from the RBGE Herbarium in October 2023, to which was added the earliest Donations ledger already in the Archives.
List of Ledgers transferred to Archives, October 2023
Accession RBGEA2023/019
Gifts/Exchanges
Donations to Herbarium, 1878-1914 (Feb) (commencing from the Donation List printed in Trans Edin Bot Soc v xiii pt2)
Collections Presented or Purchased, 1923-1930 – small notebook
Purchases / Gifts, 1956-1999
Donation Book – indexed by year – 1902-1958 – foolscap
Exchange book – 1956-1998 - arranged by institution we’re exchanging with – keeps track of exchange tallies to keep to and fro even. Some irregular exchanges listed here with note to see red Irregular exchange book for details (below)
Irregular exchanges, 1979-1999 – details (?) of irregular exchanges listed in above book. (looks like this book was meant for listing expedition accessions, but only 2 expeditions listed in 1998.
Incoming Loans
Loans Received 1956-1964 – small notebook
Loans Received 1964-1969 – small notebook
Incoming Loans (Store Copy) 1966-1986 – boards detached
Incoming Loans 1987-1999 – boards detached
Loans Record for RBGE staff, 1952-1999 – keeping track of what loans belong to RBGE staff members
Outgoing Loans ledgers
1: Loans from 1 April 1955 to 12 December 1958
2: Specimens on loan from 6 December 1958 to 1963, Nos 42/58 to 38/63
3: Specimens on loan, 1963-1965 - 39/63 to 20/65
4: Specimens on loan, 1965-1966 – 21/65 to 106/66
5: Specimens on loan, 1967 – 1/67 to 126/67
6: Specimens on loan, 1967-1969 – 127/67 to 25/69
7: Specimens on loan, 1969-1970 – 26/69 to 59/70
8: Specimens on loan, 1970-1971 – 60/70 to 89/71
9: Specimens on loan, 1972-1973 – 1/72 to 33/73
10: Specimens on loan, (Loans Out) 1973 – 34/73 to 137/73
11: Loans Out, 1974-1975 – 1/74 to 104/75
12: Loans Out, 1975-1977 – 105/75 to part loan 87/77
13: Loans Out, 1977-1978 – 61/77 and cont. loan 87/77 to 161/78
14: Loans Out, 1979-1980 – 1/79 to 177/80
15: Loans Out, 1980-1982 – 178/80 to 77/82
16: Loans 1982-1984 – 78/82 to 26/84
17: Loans 1984-1985 – 27/84 to 60/85
18: Loans 1985-1986 – 61/85 to 130/86
19: Loans 1986-1988 – 131/86 to 4/88
20: Loans 1988-1989 – 5/88 to 66/89
21: Loans 1989-1991 – 67/89 to 7/91
22: Loans 1991-1992 – 8/91 to 99/92
23: Loans 1992-1994 – 100/92 to 91/94(pt)
24: Loans 1994-1995 – 91/94(pt) to 134/95
Outgoing Loans – abbreviated Loan books
Loans Out, 1924-1976 – one-line summaries – fore-runner to day book?
Loans Out, 1977-1992 – one-line summaries – nos 1-134 1/77-134/92
Loans Out, 1992-1999 – 135/92 to 2493 one-line summaries – new numbering system starts in 1995 (no 2004) - next book in sequence - ‘Transactions’ or ‘Day Books’
Day Books / Transactions
Transactions, 1999-2007 – nos 2494-5239 – entries are now colour coded to denote what kind of transaction they are – black- loans out, red- loans in, blue- exchange in and out, green- gift in and out
Transactions, 2007-2012 – nos 5240-6766
Transactions, 2012-2019 – nos 6767-8331
Transactions 2019-2023 – nos 8332-8525, followed by Specify Numbers to 01555 at which point it was decided to discontinue paper ledgers as Specify now used to record all transactions.
Sin títuloFour 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.
Sin títuloNotes 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(?)
Sin título12x 35mm colour slides in a plastic wallet housed with a blue title card that states:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Some Views and Plants of the Garden
12 Colour Transparencies (35mm)
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland
The slides are titled: