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 (March – April 1916) and a paper titled ‘Mosses from West Ross-shire’.
Sin títuloManuscript 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.
row of trees, bare of leaves, with a bridge behind and a substantial house in the background
Paxton referred to this negative as ‘395’
Annick Lodge, Dreghorn, North Ayrshire
One of several negatives taken at this location, date unknown
Paul Aellen was a visitor to the RBGE Herbarium in the Winter of 1964, one of the earliest to the new building opened in June of that year. He worked very diligently in a quiet way on the top floor, researching Turkish Chenopodiaceae. To the amazement of the herbarium staff, just before he returned home to Basle he handed over this delightful and amusing account of his observations on the microcosm of life in theherbarium with photographs, magazine cuttings and beautifully witty pencil and ink sketches.
Sin títuloHandwritten letter on 3 sides describing “new” method of propagation- “striking on the live plant”. By cutting 4/5 through the plant stalk and binding with damp moss a new shoot grows strongly and quickly. Anderson made successful experiments with fuchsia, heliotrope, jasmine, rose, etc. showing that this method can be used both in the greenhouse and in the open in situ. He grants Patrick Neill permission to publish them in the Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society.
Sin títuloFRS/1/1/001-221: 221 letters, mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith, but also James Fraser regarding James Murray, and with A. Bruce Jackson regarding William Evans, dating between 1920 and 1928; includes information on the Botany of Peebleshire.
Sin títuloFRS/1/3/001-155: 154 letters (024 does not exist) mainly between F.R.S. Balfour and William Wright Smith but also John Macqueen Cowan, William Edgar Evans, David Wilkie(?), Gertrude Balfour and Vera Higgins, dating to between 1936 and 1945.
Sin títuloPapers connected to F.R.S. Balfour
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