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Glasgow University Herbarium Card Index

  • GB 235 GUH
  • Series
  • c.1942

2 card index boxes (possibly incomplete) listing monocots from Glasgow University's Herbarium that came to RBGE on permanent loan in 1942.

Glasgow University

Arthur Humble Evans Ephemera

  • GB 235 EAH
  • Series
  • 1855 - 1943

• Obituary, reprinted from "The North Western Naturalist" September 1943; a 3 page obituary by George Taylor which includes a portrait of A.H. Evans.
• Three items from Botanical Society of Edinburgh archives relating to Evans’s biography and bibliography – correspondence between William Wright Smith, George Taylor, Alex Cowan and J.T. Johnstone including a typed letter from George Taylor to Professor William Wright Smith (6 April 1943) regarding Evans's biography and bibliography; a handwritten note from Alex Cowan to Professor William Wright Smith (12 April 1943) regarding Evans's notification of death and clarification of a date; and a cover note from William Wright Smith to librarian J.T. Johnstone.

Evans, Arthur Humble

Photographs owned by Stuart F. Hayes relating to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

  • GB 235 HSF
  • Series
  • 1937 - 1949

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.

Hayes, Stuart F.

Four photographs taken by Thomas Bartlett showing Palm Houses, NE Corner Propagation yard and interiors of two glasshouses including the Cactus House at RBGE c. 1955

  • GB 235 BAR
  • Series
  • c.1955

Four photographs, each around 6cm square, showing the Palm House, the Palm Houses from the North East Corner Propagation yard, and two glasshouses interiors including the Cactus House, taken by Thomas Bartlett in around 1955. Bartlett worked for a company called Burgess & Co. of Bracknell after his National Service. The company installed large industrial boilers and he worked on their installation at RBGE.

Bartlett, Thomas

David Wilkie photos in possession of Trevor Jephcott

  • GB 235 WID
  • Series
  • 1952 - 1957

222 black and white photographs in 13 envelopes, some of which date between 1952-1957), presumably all taken by David Wilkie of RBGE and passed to (Charles) Trevor Jephcott. The subjects are all horticultural, with two notable groups, rhododendron and campanula.

Wilkie, David

Prijanto Correspondence

  • GB 235 PRI
  • Series
  • 1966 - 1968

A collection of 5 letters dating between August 1966 and June 1968 from Dr Botjah Prijanto to Mark Coode.

Prijanto, Botjah (1942-1969)

Items relating to the Botanic Ash Exhibition 1993

  • GB 235 ASH
  • Series
  • 1992 - 1993

GB 235/ASH/1/1-16: 1 box of 16 mounted photographs showing the felling of the Ash tree in 1992; and
GB 235 ASH/2: part of one of the tree limbs sliced into sections by Tim Stead to show the damage done internally by fungus; tree limb sections can be arranged to form an artistic sculpture.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)

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