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This is a series created by bringing known sets of lecture notes, usually taken by students attending Botany lectures at the University of Edinburgh provided by the Regius Keeper of the RBGE who usually also held the post of Professor of Botany. Many of these books will have been acquired by Isaac Bayley Balfour.

Rita Calder was a mounter in the Herbarium and documented her mounting numbers in notebooks before the advent of an electronic Mounting Backlog spreadsheet now held on SharePoint. LIVE Mounting Backlog Spreadsheet.xlsx
These notebooks are handwritten and document the year and date collections were submitted for mounting and then when they were completed (1983 – 2008). From 2007 the new mounter Kate Eden also completed entries, obvious by a change in handwriting. They also make references to specimens which were repaired and which member of staff submitted them.
There appear to be two sets of books. The ones with In/Out columns are specimens mounted in any given month/year. The other books are a record of specimens coming into the Mounting Room in any given year. They record the country of origin and the donor or member of RBGE staff who submitted them. They could be viewed in the context of the Incoming Specimen/Donation books already held in the Archive.

George Sherriff Diary written in pen from 13 June - 15 Nov 1934.

This file contains the 1934 diary of G. Sherriff. The diary contains a number of loose leaf pages that have been interleaved between the back pages of the bound book. These include: an itinerary; a sketch route map; two letters from Syed Mohamed Rasemulla; another letter (sender unknown); a number of notes on scraps of paper; a list of the number of specimens plants/seeds end out during the year; a mail list; an expenses list.

Documents originally found interleaved between the back pages of the bound book. These include:

(1) a sketch route map in pencil. 1 page.

(2) two letters from Syed Mohamed Rasemulla. Dated 14 Oct 1934 and 5 Aug 1934. 1 page each.

(3) Partial letter from Frank Ludlow. Dated. 3 Aug [No Year]. Listing what he has seen in regards to botany, birds, and butterflies. Gives details about the route he has been taking. Begins to write about his plans but gets cut off. There is a torn piece of paper, that appears to be the rest of the letter, signed F. Ludlow. This torn paper has some brief notes by George Sherriff written on it in pencil. 1 page + 1 scrap.

(4) Hand-written table. No title. Months down the side and names across the top. Filled in with numbers and totals at the bottom of each column. Possibly a list of the number of specimens plants/seeds sent out during the year. 1 page.

(5) "Mails for Captain Sherriff". Details of mail received. Note from Lukarimullah, no date. 1 page.

(6) "Account for Captain Sherriff". Details of expenses. Brief note at the bottom by Lukarimullah, dated 8 Nov 1934. 1 page.

(7) 2 very brief notes on scraps of paper. 2 scraps.

(8) Hotel receipt: Nedous Hotel, 23 May 1934. For Danong Lepcha.

(8) HR Fletcher research notes, 4 pages, for the book "Quest of Flowers"

Typed list of seeds and bulbs. Listed by field number. Includes number of packets, name of plant, and any remarks. Annotated in pen by George Sherriff. 13 pages.

Contains 8 loose pages:

(1) hand written note, in pencil, with collection numbers and species names. Written by George Sherriff. 2 pages.

(2) Letter to George Sherriff from Prof. William Wright Smith (26 Aug 1949). Reply from a letter dated 23 July. Gives impression of 2 primulas (elongata and barnardoana). Sorry to hear Betty Sherriff has been injured. Hasn't been able to do much work on Primulas due to being short on staff. 1 page.

(3) REPRINT: Note on a Cordyceps from Tibet by H. Chaudhuri. Transactions of the British Mycological Society, Volume 16, Issues 2–3, 1931, Pages 203-205. 1 page.

(4) a clipping from the Illustrated London News with colour photographs of 'Aquatics in Kashmir'. 4 loose pages.