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Glenarn Garden, Rhu, Dumbartonshire
Owned by the Gibson family between 1922 and 1984, archive consists of:
• Early Plant Book – 1
• Rhododendron Book (Bible / Stud Book)
• List of Abbreviations relating to above two books
• Letter from Jim Gibson to David Ingram dated 24/01/1994 regarding donation of above and history of the Garden.

• letter between F.R.S. Balfour of Dawyck and Archie Gibson, 09/08/1939 relating to Sawyers of Inverewe, silver pheasants, and some informatin on rhododendron - falconeri on the Isle of Man reputedly planted pre-1847 (pre-Hooker) - was it sent by Colonel Sykes c. 1830?
• communication between John Patrick of the Rhododendron Venture and Archie Gibson in 1972 regarding plants from Taiwan and the Rhododendron Venture report of 1971. Both this and the FRS Balfour letter above were donated to RBGE in 1999 by Jim Gibson.

Garden, The – It’s Formation and Furnishing
•Series of Lectures – presumably by Prof. I.B. Balfour – filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers – Box 4 of “Miscellaneous Papers – lecture notes, etc”

•11 copies of his obituary: Extracted from “Proceedings of The Linnean Society of London, Session 157, 1944-1945, Pt.2, 23 May 1946. Photograph: Lt-Col Andrew Thomas Gage, C.I.E. & pages105-109.
•Correspondence dated 1912-1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in main index.
•Letter from D. Prain (Kew) dated 11 Dec 1909 to Major Gage re: max Sterculia filed under “Prain, D” in general index.

Galloway, Robert (Secretary to Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society) Correspondence filed in “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers under “Arboricultural Society”

References in papers filed “Swarbrick, J.T” – Report on Victoria Botanic Garden, Cameroons.

5 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.

France (Museum of Natural History, Botany, Paris)
Correspondence dated 1912 – 1913 on Primula filed with subject material under “Primula” (Box 1) in Main index

Farmer, Prof. B. – Imperial College of Science & Technology.
Papers and Correspondence re: Sphagnum Moss – Use as medical dressings (World War 1 & World War 2 references) - inc. W Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916

Copy of lecture paper sent to Miss Noble with covering letter; Cards containing corrections to lecture; Extracts showing tables of locations and quantities of various fungi compiled by Stevenson in 1879; Extract of list of plant diseases recorded in Greville’s “Scottish Cryptogamic Flora”, 1823; List of 8 types of virus (?) and their quantities added by Boyd in 1924; list as follows:
•1 letter dated January 8, 1976 to Miss Noble regarding the manuscript of the talk “History and Developments in Scottish Botany V. Progress in Mycology”.
•15 page typed manuscript on the “History and Developments in Scottish Botany V. Progress in Mycology”, with handwritten corrections.
•7 handwritten topic cards relating to the M/S
•2 handwritten notes 0n Numbers of Fungi Collected by Stevenson (1879)
•4 printed pages relating to Distribution Chart; Stevenson’s Mycologia Scotica (1879)

Forman, Adam (1916 corres.)
•Papers and Correspondence re: Sphagnum Moss – Use as medical dressings (1st World War & 2nd World War references) - inc. W Wright Smith’s report to R.A.M.C. (War Dept.) dated 1916 are filed under “Sphagnum Moss as medical dressings” – index “S”