•Duplicate copy of his thesis: ‘Perennial Cultivation of Cotton with Special Reference to the cultivation of Ratoons in Egypt’ (1927).
Sans titre•Collecting book with list of plants and 6 photographs of pencil sketches by Thurn made during first ascent of Roraima - December 14th, 1884,
Sans titreDocuments found inside a copy of Gerarde's Herbal (1633) bought at auction of Captain Henry Trotter of Mortoun Hall's Library on February 10 1947, alongside an extract from a letter presumably sent to RBGE with the documents.
• TRO/1: 'Hardy Tree Seeds of Plants from America for Season 1760': List of seeds and plants imported from America in 1760 and sold by Mrs Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh
• TRO/2: 'A List of the Different kinds of Fruit Trees wanted for the different aspects of the Wall round the new Kitchen Garden at Mortounhall 1772': List of fruit required for Mortonhall, 1772.
• TRO/3: Abstract from Mrs J.W. Hely-Hutchinson’s letter, 26 February 1947: 'The Gerarde's Herbal in which the papers were found is dated 1633 and was bought at Christie's from the sale of the library of Captain Henry Trotter of Mortoun Hall on Feb. 10th, 1947.'
• WEH/1: Bound manuscript titled 'China: Wilson's journeys for Arnold Arboretum, 1907, 1908, 1910' containing numbered list of plants with descriptions and names (but no locations). Case binding with marbled end-papers. Printed label on front end-paper: Knapp, Drewett & Sons Ltd., Account book manufacturers, printers, lithographers & stationers, Kingston-Upon-Thames and branches. Book looks to have been obtained by RBGE in 1942.
(right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78783&query_desc=an%3A11168 (library acc: ECDO1)
• WEH/2: Folder containing a list of E.H.Wilson's Seeds from China - list compiled at RBGE from information found in the Plant Incoming Register: "Outdoor Department 1-02 to 10-12", seed sent to Edinburgh by John Stirling Maxwell in 1907
•Three folders containing three prints of Flora of Western China Kew herbarium specimens collected by E.H. Wilson (specimens on loan from Kew, photographed at RBGE) - these to be added to RBGE Archive's 'Plant Portrait Prints' collection.
68 typed foolscap pages in a clutch folder belonging to John D. Main on the Genus Primula, Synonyms of the Genus Primula from other Genera, Species and Synonyms of the Genus Primula and Primula Synonymy. Possible course notes?
On the front is 'J.D. Main' and 'Primula' in Dymo tape.
John D. Main was a student at RBGE before becoming Head of Horticulture.
France (Museum of Natural History, Botany, Paris)
Correspondence dated 1912 – 1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in Main index
References in papers filed “Swarbrick, J.T” – Report on Victoria Botanic Garden, Cameroons.
Sans titre5 typed sets of copied field notes for “The Furse Expedition to Iran & Turkey - 1962”. A typed covering letter from C.D. Brickell, (Botanist for the Director), Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Wisley, dated 26th March 1962 had accompanied the first consignment of plants from the Furse Expedition.
Sans titre•Materials related to his book ‘Flora of Forfarshire’ – 16 page handwritten monograph ‘Catalogue of Mosses Collected in Forfarshire and Perthshire; including 155 species and varieties belonging to 26 genera.’ bound in card cover. Inset at the end is a copy of a letter from Alex. P. Stevenson, stamped 17 Jun 1903, referencing James Donald – Hampton Court Gardens.
•Note from W.W. Smith, dated 23 Dec 1931 referring to Gardiner’s own copy of his book ‘Flora of Forfarshire’. The copy was lent by Alexander Hutcheson and is believed to be unique, as having mounted specimens of plants interleaved and named by Gardiner himself. The copy referred to in the note is in the Library of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
•Lent by Alexander Hutcheson – an advertisement for a proposed 2nd edition of “Gardiner’s Flora of Forfarshire”, which was never published.
•Letter written by William Gardiner to his wife Elizabeth from Castleton of Braemar, dated 26 July 1844, on one of his botanical excursions; acknowledging receipt of a P.O. money order.
•Letter dated 30 Jan 1896 from James Scrymgeour to Alexander Hutcheson re: Wm. Gardiner.
•“The Flora Of Forfarshire”, Gardiner, William, London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1848.
(right click, open link in new tab:) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015061233758
The undernoted papers, which are filed under “Trotter, Capt. H.” are those referred to in the appended extract from Mrs. J.W. Hely-Hutchison’s letter of 26th Feb. 1947:
[1] List of seeds and plants imported from America 1760 and sold by Mrs. Drummond, Seed Merchant, Lawn Market, Edinburgh
[2] List of fruit trees required for Mortonhall (Mortoun Hall), 1772