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8 glass lantern slides showing images of Meconopsis taken by Mrs Knox-Finlay at Keillour Lake, Keillour Castle:
Meconopsis
Meconopsis x musgravei
Meconopsis sherriff 600
Meconopsis grandis 600
Meconopsis grandis (true)
Meconopsis coxiana
Meconopsis betonicifolia praetensis
Meconopsis beamishii

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.

2 ring-book volumes detailing the Bryophyte Flora of Barra

Gordon, Rosemary
• Thesis: a General Account of the Anatomy of Saurauja Subspinosa, 1935
66 typed pages, inc. 2 page Bibliography; 19 pages describing 22 Figures & 6 pages describing 12 Plates (Thesis Bot. IV, no plates but negatives with m.y.o. [Matthew Young Orr])

Box of photographs of Sikkim including plants and locations, taken by Colonel Duncan George Lowndes between around 1935 and 1937, filed alongside correspondence to R.E. Cooper regarding the photographs, and lists of plants sent to RBGE (accompanying herbarium specimens) and notes to and from James Sinclair regarding some of his plant identifications.

•File containing papers and correspondence from 1933 -1989 re: Berberis
•Letters from Royal Horticultural Society dated, 28 Dec 1933, 13 Oct 1939, 21 Mar 1940
•Misc. field notes on Berberis 1935
•Corresp. With J Comber (Nymans Gardens) dated, Feb – Jun 1935
•Draft of article in “Gard. Chron.” 15 Jun 1935, Berberis Calliantha figs 168 & 169; p.394
•Photograph Berberis Calliantha dated Oct 1934 K. W. 6308
•Misc. notes on Berberis chrysosphaera (K.W. 11036) ref: Gard Chron XCVIII, p.124 17 Aug 1935
•Misc. correspondence Botanic Gardens Kew dated 12 Sep 1939; 9 Feb 1940; 22 Feb 1940
•Letter dated 15 Sep 1939 RBGE re; K.W. 11036;
•Corresp. With Rev. Dr. Leslie W. A. Ahrendt, dated, 18 Jan 1940; 23 Jan 1940; 29 Jan 1940 13 Apr 1940; 30 Aug 1940; 16 Jun 1941; 6 May 1950
•Covering letter from Brian O. Mulligan, to Dr. David Chamberlain at RBGE, dated 13 Mar 1989, detailing all enclosed notes and correspondence regarding Berberis calliantha & Berberis chrysosphaera

1 photo album marked 'Vol 2' containing 42 prints of alpine plants; 2 separate prints mounted on card (Cyclamen repandum and Primula reidii); and 3 RHS certificates dated 1947, 1959, and 1964

•Copy of Milford’s obituary printed in the ‘Quarterly Bulletin of The Alpine Garden Society’, Vol.8, No.4, December, 1940, Vera Higgins, MA (ed.) pp.14-15
•Note book containing field notes from an expedition (1934-35)
•Correspondence regarding Milford (1992 -2002)
•Copies of a newspaper article mentioning Milford’s expedition to Durban, South Africa, ‘Rare Wild Flowers Collected: Botanist from England Tour Basutoland’, The Natal Mercury, 25/03/1935
•Photograph of ‘Helichrysum Milfordiae’
•Wooden box containing glass plate negatives

6 boxes containing minute books, signature books, papers from various committees including finance, editorial and show, papers from various presidents and secretaries, papers relating to the Scottish Garden Tour, 1991 (6th International Rock Garden Plant Conference), Golden jubilee certificate and logo masters, Alpines Conference 1991, Scottish Horticultural medal, Archival cuttings, Exploration Fund, Jubilee Salver, papers relating to shows and awards, Diamond Jubilee 1993, questionnaires, membership papers, publication files and files on seed distribution.
Two cabinets of 35mm slides comprising 10 drawers full, the Davidson Slide Collection, were also donated in April 2017.
Journal Ephemera box comprises a selection of notices, accounts, show schedules, members lists and the first syllabus relating to the activities of the Scottish Rock Garden Club, dating between 1933 and 1999.

•Notes on his Rocky Mountain and Appalachian Expeditions (1933-1937)