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Pearson, Arthur Anselm
GB 235 PAA · Item · 1874 - 1954

•Memo book titled ‘Agarics: New Records and Observations’ (1938), from Dr. Roy Watling through Alan Bennell

Pearson, Arthur Anselm
Pearson, Henry Harold Welch
GB 235 PHW · Item · 1870 - 1916

•Brief history of the life of Henry Harold Welch Pearson, up to 1902, and list of his publications (24.11.1902)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Pennant, Thomas
GB 235 PNT · Item · 1726 - 1798

•Letter sent by Pennant to Sir Roger Mostyn M.P., 9th Sept 1783)
•Transcript of a letter sent by Pennant to Sir Roger Mostyn M.P. (09.09.1783), presented by Miss Carruthers, (03.11.1964

Pennant, Thomas
Penson, Jim
GB 235 PEN · File · 2015

•File containing 2 notebooks, titled ‘Flora Scotica’ and ‘Local Flora – Mainly West Cornwall’

Penson, Jim
Peter H. Davis papers
GB 235 RBG/2/DPH · Collection · 1944 - 1985
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
  • Folder of illustrations
  • Letter from J.E. Dinsmore (January 11, 1945)
  • Folder of family photographs
  • Map of Turkey (1973)
  • Folder of various loose prints and mounted photographic/artistic material
  • 2 boxes of negatives and prints
  • 2 boxes of negatives and contact prints
  • 1 box of transparencies
  • 1 box of medals
  • 3 degree certificate scrolls
  • 1 box of transparencies
  • 5 boxes of correspondence with contributors of Flora Turkey Accounts
  • 1 vol. of Turkish meteorology
  • Block of Flora of Turkey map
  • Flora Iranica funding application
  • 1 box of correspondence regarding collecting trips to Turkey: 1954, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1975, 1982, 1983.
  • Correspondence regarding collecting trips to Morocco (1970), Algeria (1971), Iran (1974), N. Africa (1975), Brasil (1976), Ghana - cancelled (1978)
  • Itineraries and maps of various plant collectors in Turkey
  • 1 box containing general correspondence regarding Flora Turkey project including:
    o SRC 1961-1976 (cost of project in that time)
    o SRC 1961-1976 (grants and claims)
    o SRC reports 1982-1985
    o NATO grants
    o Composer and EUP
    o Senior Research Fellowship
    o Box containing correspondence with Edinburgh University Press and Authors, vol.1-7 Plant geography of the Middle East
  • Flora of Turkey book reviews
  • Synopsis of costing of Flora of Turkey project
  • P.H. Davis various Articles
  • Diary of a visit to Leningrad in 1959
  • Seed and bulb lists (various) and subscribers
  • Steedman Ramage/ Curator Bonis correspondence (access restrictions apply)
  • Varia, C.V. and obituaries
Davis, Peter Hadland
Peter Michie ephemera
GB 235 MIC · Collection · 1930 - 1955

/1 notebook; "Noteworthy Plants at RBGE 1947"
/2 lecture notes, c.1950 - probation gardener course at RBGE
/3/1-18 exam papers taken at RBGE, 1948-1951
/4 certificate awarded at completion of course
/5 photographs taken at RBGE, 4 donated, 1 scan of Peter Michie in Palm House
/6 photograph album/notebook of shots of RBGE taken in 1930-1950 by Roland Edgar Cooper "Showing glimpses of the layout plan of 1824"
/7 "The Weather Map" - 1948 textbook used for Meteorology course

Michie, Peter
GB 235 FRG/1/1/1/1903/1 · Item · 21/06/1903
Part of George Forrest Collection

Photocopy of letter sent by John Abercromby, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to Isaac Bayley Balfour, dated 21 June 1903; Asks if Balfour knows of any person or society wanting a collector of botanical specimens abroad. Recommends ‘a young fellow of the name of Forrest’ who looks ‘the right sort of man.’