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3 photographs taken at RBGE by George T. Malthouse in the 1890s, all showing the transportation of trees around RBGE: Araucaria imbricata, Quercus cerris and Crataegus oxyacantha, all with gardeners around the transporter.

The 28 photographs in this series, taken by Pietro Guidi in San Remo, Italy, in the 1870s formed part of the Photographic Flora of San Remo, supervised by local pharmacist Francesco Panizzi. Each photograph has a Latin name, locality and a flowering time and som are hand coloured.

•Folder containing photographs of trees, (1901), used in Percy [Groom’s] ‘Trees and their Life Histories’ (1907), found in the National Museum of Scotland. [accession 2005/08]
•Four small folders containing photos of plants and flowers, dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
•Four large folders containing photos of plants and flowers dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]

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.

20 photographs showing the development of the Rock Garden in around 1938-39 (x17) the arrival of the large stone trough from House o'Hill for the alpine yard c.1936? (x2) and Primula reidii taken by David Wilkie

•Box containing photographs of an expedition to China, and George Forrest related photographs, 2003

[COVER] "PHOTOGRAPHY"

lists of specimens (with collection/accession numbers)

[COVER] "PHOTOMICROGRAPHY NEGATIVE RECORD CHROMOSOMES ONLY WEF: 9 SEPT 1982"
[SPINE] "CHROMOSOMES RECORD"

A table with the following headings across the top [Left to Right]: "No., DATE, DEPT. SPECIMEN or CO-ORDINATES, OPERATOR, TECHNIQUE, OBJECTIVE, OPTOVAR, OCCULAR, FINAL MAG. FILM. REF."

[COVER] "BOTANY CHROMOSOMES"

A table with the following headings across the top [Left to Right]: "No., DATE, DEPT. SPECIMEN or CO-ORDINATES, OPERATOR, TECHNIQUE, OBJECTIVE, OPTOVAR, OCCULAR, FINAL MAG. FILM. REF."

[COVER] "BOTANY: CHROMOSOMES"

A table with the following headings across the top [Left to Right]: "No., DATE, DEPT. SPECIMEN or CO-ORDINATES, OPERATOR, TECHNIQUE, OBJECTIVE, OPTOVAR, OCCULAR, FINAL MAG. FILM. REF."

Loose inside are black and white photograph prints and negatives, presumably correspond to the notebook. (found: inside front cover, between pages: 2/3,4/5,6/7,12/13,14/15)