Correspondence relating to John Hutton Balfour's lectures to the Science and Art Department
- GB 235 RBG/1/JHB/1/3/3
- File
- 1869
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
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Correspondence relating to John Hutton Balfour's lectures to the Science and Art Department
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Correspondence from George Forrest to his fiancee Clementina Traill during his first expedition
Part of George Forrest Collection
A set of seven incomplete letters from George Forrest to his fiancee Clementina Traill that was donated to RBGE by Forrest's family, likely via their son Eric Forrest.
Correspondence from Botanical Survey of India, Poona Herbarium
One file of letters from G.S. Puri, Regional botanist, Botanical Survey of India, Wester Circle, Poona to H.R. Fletcher at RBGE describing the development of the Poona herbarium, museum and experimental garden in around 1958. There is discussion of a seed exchange plus a short article on the activities of the Poona herbarium for publication in our journal [was it ever published?].
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Correspondence between Forrest and RBGE pertaining to his first expedition to Yunnan
Part of George Forrest Collection
Set of letters between RBGE and Forrest, or connected to Forrest, dating to 1904.
Correspondence between Forrest and RBGE pertaining to his employment
Part of George Forrest Collection
Folder of letters and copy letters sent at the time Forrest started working at RBGE between June and September 1903.
Forrest, George
Correspondence and crocus specimens of E.A. Bowles
Bowles, Edward Augustus (1865-1954)
Correspondence and crocus specimens, 1 Folder
Bowles, Edward Augustus
Copies of RHS fieldnotes from Furse expedition to Iran and Turkey, 1962
5 typed sets of copied field notes for “The Furse Expedition to Iran & Turkey - 1962”. A typed covering letter from C.D. Brickell, (Botanist for the Director), Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Wisley, dated 26th March 1962 had accompanied the first consignment of plants from the Furse Expedition.
Furse, Admiral John Paul Wellington
Completed and incomplete draft accounts for projected new students – Polygonum, Fagopyrum and Oxyria
56 mss pages in ink and pencil in brown paper folder, 200 x 320mm comprising Part complete and incomplete drafts for projected “New Students’ Flora” – Polygonum, Fagopyrum and Oxyria by Charles Edward Britton, (1872-1944)
Britton, Charles Edward
Comber, Harold Frederick (1897-1969)
1 folder with information on an expeditions to the Andes (1925/1926/1927)
Comber, Harold Frederick
Col. Edward Madden Plant Collection List
•Collector: Col. E Madden – list of numbered Himalayan Plants from Simla Lits mountains to Kumaon & Tibet named (mostly by M.P. Edgeworth) Almorah 1849, remainder named by Bentham, G; Munro, Major W.; Strachey, Capt. R.; Winterbotton, J.E. in some cases by collation with Herbarium Wallich – Filed under “Madden, E” in general index; in the form of 28 leaves, sewn in a paper cover]
Madden, Edward