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•Syllabus of Three Lectures on Charles Darwin and His Works
Lankaster, Prof. RayAt present, 1 folder containing newsletter, funding appeal and letterheads dating to 2011
Bennell, Alan P.This collection comprises some items that accompanied a donation to the RBGE Herbarium (01700) in April 2024; the folder in the RBGE Archives includes Ogilvie's passport, 1968-1978 and a letter that was found inside a pamphlet that was part of the donation (Min. Agr & Fisheries Bull. no.123 6th ed. 1969); John G.S. Marshall to L. Ogilvie, 31/12/1971, discussing the popularity of the Bulletin, plans for a Spanish version and a revision.
Two copies of Diseases of Vegetables, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Bulletin No. 123 were included in the accession; the first, (2nd ed. 1944) is annotated and to be catalogued and housed in the RBGE Library Periodicals section alongside the second (6th ed. 1969).
The accession also includes a print out of Ogilvie's Wikipedia page (in the Archives folder), and a cover note from his son, W. Duncan Ogilvie (in the Archives Accession file), who donated the collection in April 2024.
•Correspondence, dated 1912-1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in main index.
Lecombe, HPrinted text of the Lecture on ‘The Scope and Tendency of Botanical Study; An Inaugural Address delivered before the Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine’ (May 3, 1858)
Collingwood, Cuthbert141 pages. Bound ledger with printed columns, labelled: 'Serial Number', 'Name of Plant', 'Divin. of Sikkim', 'Where collected', 'Date of Coll. of specimen', 'Serial No. in Herbm.', 'Serial No. in Ind. Gdn.'
Pages arranged by plant family.
Copy of his obituary, 1896
•Copy of eulogy
•Notice of interment
A letter from Dorothee Ammann to Prof. Carl-Johan Widen and an enclosed copy of Tadeus Reichstein's CV (written by T. Reichstein)
Reichstein, TadeuszLetter to George H. Cave, authorizing James Cromer Watt to accompany Cave for 15 days travel in Sikkim 'for the purpose of seeing rhododendrons.'
Celia's letters awaiting him on return from camping where he saw golden anemones beside a babbling beck & hearing black mother bears roaring after their babies among the bamboos. Writes of Celia's daughters marrying, suggests Cynthia one of them, might become his wife, Mrs Me. Suggests Celia will be free to visit him in Peking or Rangoon in late 1920, 1921 to view various sites and shopping together, aware these are lovely fantasies. Enquires about the Beautiful Young Man? [Milner?] Describes how the coolie-porters danced and sang folksongs by the campfire, a genuine art of wild hill people.
Farrer, Reginald John