Showing 3310 results

Correspondence; see “Aglen Collection”. “W.H. Campbell Correspondence” Botanical Society of [Edinburgh] Scotland (BSS)

•1 box of general correspondence from 1990-92 (now in Registry, SFC/1/1 and SFC/1/2)
•1 box of general correspondence from 1993 (now in Registry, SFC/1/3 and SFC/1/4)
•2 folders of information regarding the Society of Flora of China’s Joint Editorial Meeting, Edinburgh, April 1995 (now in Registry, SFC/2/2)
•Signed posters from 1995 and final 2013 meeting, with photographs relating to the latter.

Gordon, Henry J. - Surgeon to “HMS Ganges” 1889 (Index p.33/34 & 84)
• 2 hand written copies of a 5 page paper: ”Flora of Ascension, 1889”; Report by naval surgeon Gordon during a visit by H.M.S. Ganges. Embraces the climate, topography, land plants/trees and marine vegetation. Suggests if more trees were planted the climate could become wetter encouraging more vegetation.
• 1 copy of 9 page hand written list of 156 Plant Specimens; Ascension island flora with common names and botanical ones on separate lists.

black notebook labelled "University Lectures, Techniques and Demonstrations (Edinburgh). Notebook outlines how the RBGE library and herbarium works, the slide library, information on coursework, including writing theses; and lecture outlines for the Medical Botany Class given (by herself?) in 1932. There are 4 inserts including 2 exam papers (Plant Physiology, Practical and Practical Elementary Botany in 1932, an outline of J.R. Matthews's Botany lectures for first years, and a library loan slip.

Letters dated 30 November 1898 & 2 December 1898, Re; Socotra for Chairman's address to Royal Society of Edinburgh; filed with "Balfour, I.B." papers under "Socotra" - misc. correspondence folder - Box 1.

"Vorlesungen über Bakterien” Pub. Jena :Fischer,1897..

•Notebook field notes of Uredinales, 100-209
•Notebook of field notes of Uredinales, 210-248

A letter from Jane Fergus to Hugh Cleghorn, dated 7 December, 1839

Five duplicate reprints from the RBGE Library reprint collection (the reprints were to be withdrawn from the collection as the articles are in published journals in the Library Collection; however, as there are so few traces of the Chinese botanists who travelled to Edinburgh in the 1930s/40s to study, a decision was made to retain these as a way of preserving the memory of Feng-Hwai Chen at RBGE; it appears at least one may have his handwriting on a dedication to WW Smith.

• ‘A preliminary study on the vegetation of the Ching-Po-Hu lake and its vicinity, in the Northeastern part of Kirin Province, Manchuria’ F-H Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, January 1 1934; annotated to Dr. R.E. Cooper (in REC’s handwriting?)
• ‘A preliminary study of the Compositae in Hopei Province’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, May 1 1934
• ‘Enumeration of Primula collected by Mr T.T. Yu from Northwestern Yunnan, F.H. Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, March 1939; annotated ‘To Prof. W.W. Smith with the author’s compliments Fenghwai Chen, May 30/40’
• ‘A study of Primula seeds with reference to the criteria of sections’, Feng-Hwai Chen, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, July 1940
• ‘An Enumeration of Aconitum collected by T.T. Yu from N.W. Yunnan’, Feng-Hwai Chen & Ying Liu, from the Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, June 1941; annotated with ‘To Mr W.E. Evans’

•Correspondence begins with letter from James Keenan to Ian Fellowes-Gordon dated 18 August 1960; in which Keenan asks for any information Fellowes-Gordon might have on North Burma that would be helpful to Keenan’s proposed plant collecting expedition.
•Misc. handwritten & typed correspondence from 1960 – 1973
•Dust jacket of the American edition of “The Magic War; the battle for North Burma” by Ian Fellowes-Gordon; Pub. 1972 typed cover note to James Keenan dated 22 March 1972
Handrawn map of 'Collecting areas' Hpaungdaw, Heinde, Banchaung & Tenasserim Rivers.