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The Peter and Ewan Cox collection contains the diaries and notebooks of Peter Cox, detailing plant collecting trips undertaken from 1962 until 2012.

The collection also contains two books of rainfall measurements taken by Ewan Cox as well as one note book relating to plants ordered from Logan Botanic Gardens.

Ewan Cox – (1893-1977) - Cox, Euan Hillhouse Methven (1893–1977), plant collector and gardener | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (oxforddnb.com)

Diaries

Plant Lists

1922? ‘ Plants ordered from Logan’

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‘Rain Fall’ - accounts? 1922>1932

‘Rain Fall – 1932-42

Peter Cox – 1930s

Diaries

Turkey 1962 (unsure of author)

India 1965 (Not clear if Ewan but mentioned ‘Peter and I’ on 11th April

‘??? – 1967, Bookshop – 1976, RH. Conference – 1982’, Diary entries from Spain – 1967, requests for bookshop, names of customers? And diary entries from ‘RBG’ conference

China – 1981 – Also continues notes of seed+plants

‘Dolomites 1976’ – Unsure of author, contains entry from 15/9/1984

Nepal 1985

Bhutan – 1988

China - 1989

Sichuan – 1990

China – 1992

Contains photograph ‘Huan Rong, Lai Xuebo, Lai Han’

Yunnan SPR - 1992

Yunnan SPR – 1994

China 1995

Chile – 1996

Tibet - 1996

Yunnan – 1997

South Africa - 1998

Tibet - 1999(or 8?)

China – 1999

China – 2000

India - 2002

India 2004

China - 2007

Armenia – 2008

China - 2009

China - 2010

Georgia - 2011

China – 2012

Field notes?

‘1954>Notes’ – Author unclear

‘USA ETC’ 1974 (Continues into 1982?)

USA – 1978

‘IPPS’ – June - 1984

Nepal - 1985

China – 1986

China - 1986

Bhutan - 1988

Sichuan – 1989

China – 1990

USA - 1991

China - 1993

‘Field notes ETC 1992-4 – Yunnan, Tibet’

Tibet – 1996

China – 1997

Tibet - 1998

China – 1999

‘2000 – Base’ – Burma?

Australia/New Zealand – 2000

India – 2002

India - 2004

India – 2006

India – 2006 ‘No Field Notes’ – contains lists but no notes

China - 2007

China – 2012

‘Cult Book’ (Culture?) – 1980?

‘Seed Collected September/October 1978, Cox & Hutchinson.’ 3 pages a4, America, Mostly West Coast

‘Game Register’ – 1945-51

‘Hybrid Notes for book’

/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

1 folder with Photocopy of personal journal of E.H.M. Cox 31st January - 29th December 1919. Covering the Burma Expedition with Reginald John Farrer (17 February 1880 – 17 October 1920)
Remarkable account of 2 people, written between 1919 and 1920 and occasionally containing language and attitudes that would be considered offensive today; E.H.M. Cox, photographer, botanist, hunter, writer, and Reginald Farrer: botanist, painter and writer. Sail to Rangoon from Liverpool. Train and boat to Myitkyina and make base; from there they make expeditions into Kachin country with a large train of coolies, Gurkhas and Indian staff. Routine [as far as possible] seems to be gathering specimens, plants and seeds, taking photos, both glass plate and roll film, drying and pressing plants. Travelling from place to place and camping for as long as they need. Long treks in the north-east highlands climbing to 10,000 ft. and more. The diary is very closely observed and personal .The writer finds he has to do much more than the above accomplishments due to non-appearance of cooks, coolies etc. The weather plays an important part in the diary due to its erratic behaviour. Interesting that they receive pretty regular mail and both write a lot in return. British District Officers play a [generally] useful part in their plant searches. [description by SM]

47 photographs / studies of members of RBGE staff, mainly gardeners / probationer gardeners, some named, but many not.
Names include David Sydney Fish (x2), W. Douglas, Murray, David Wilkie, James D. McKenzie, James Esplin, D.M. Ross, William Ritchie, H.B. Anderson, Andrew R. Cosh, Thomas Sherlock, Douglas Law, William Fernie and Alexander Reid.

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