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Poem, written in green ink on handmade paper and inserted into a folded card with ‘a contemplation’ on it. One one side of the paper is ‘Written by Katheryn’s bench by the southern border of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh on the afternoon of the second day of 2025. John Robertson

Together, a while

If all that remains of me
is a place for others to rest,
a place for others to think,
and to connect
and to see
and to be.

Then put my life down
to the simple achievement
of a humble wooden bench
with a quiet brass plaque,
and on it shall be written:
‘let us dance together, a while’
set away somewhere gentle
at Edinburgh’s Botanical Ceilidh.

John R. 02.01.2025

Manuscript titled 'Localities for New or Rare Mosses in Scotland'.
The names Alexander McKinlay, James Stirton and John Shaw are mentioned as collectors in the manuscript, alongside three dates, 1861, 1864 and 1868. Although not definite, the handwriting in the documents compares very favourably to that of James Hardy (1815-1898), Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club and compiling a work on Mosses of Berwickshire at the end of the 1860s.

Rita Calder was a mounter in the Herbarium and documented her mounting numbers in notebooks before the advent of an electronic Mounting Backlog spreadsheet now held on SharePoint. LIVE Mounting Backlog Spreadsheet.xlsx
These notebooks are handwritten and document the year and date collections were submitted for mounting and then when they were completed (1983 – 2008). From 2007 the new mounter Kate Eden also completed entries, obvious by a change in handwriting. They also make references to specimens which were repaired and which member of staff submitted them.
There appear to be two sets of books. The ones with In/Out columns are specimens mounted in any given month/year. The other books are a record of specimens coming into the Mounting Room in any given year. They record the country of origin and the donor or member of RBGE staff who submitted them. They could be viewed in the context of the Incoming Specimen/Donation books already held in the Archive.

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.

Gutta Percha latex block originally from the Tjipetir Plantation, Java (c. 1900) in Indonesia but washed up on the beach of Cornwall. Found by Tracey Williams and donated to Peter Wilkie (RBGE). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30043875

1 box of Ness correspondence between Balfour and Bulley (1896-1921)

• Three passports
• B.L. Burtt’s Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, p.14, (7th of June 2008)
• Two boxes of B.L Burtt’s notebooks
• Three boxes containing reprints and annotated working copies of various journals and articles
• in 2019 a folder of biographical information, including 3 photographs, compiled by Henry Noltie was added to the collection. It includes the obituaries and biographical articles Henry wrote, plus other obituaries, articles about Bill, and memories by him and about him.

Box contains scrapbook and folder containing correspondence and obituary.