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•Pamphlet entitled, ‘To Dr. William Pitcairne…This Small Tribute to the Memory of a Distinguished Kinsman’
Pitcairne, Dr. William1 page letter. Typed.
Brownsey, Patrick John5 permits and a few letters around permissions to collect in various localities within South Africa.
Theatre programme for the play 'Plant Hunter: The Tibetan Journeys of Joseph Rock' which was performed at RBGE during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1996 by Theatrum Botanicum, Theater of Plantes.
The programme has Rock's Naxi bookplate on the front cover and a timeline of Rock's life inside. The play was written using Rock's diaries which are held in the RBGE Archives, and Evan-Wentz's Tibetan Book of the Dead.
1 document. Photocopy. Bound
[TITLE] The Restoration of Ascog Hall Fernery Isle of Bute, Plant Inventory.
Prepared by The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. By D.R. Mitchell, Curator. 1997.
[Excerpt from Introduction] This document was prepared by staff of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh following the request by Mr. & Mrs. W. Fyfe in January 1996, to assist with the research, planning and replanting of the Ascog Hall Fernery.
It is a record of the material selected to replant the fernery during the spring of 1997, in a style evocative of the original planting recorded int eh article from the Gardeners Chronicle of 1879. Following extensive research in the gardens library and consultation with science staff regarding changes in nomenclature, as many of the original plants as possible were obtained.
Mitchell, David R.2 notebooks and 2 lists and 1 letter (D. Morris of RBG Kew to Kenrick, 1895)
Kenrick, Rev. Henry William Gordon4 fern frond. 2 with labels..
Tennant, David J.6 specimens sent to Mary Gibby in a single envelope from C.R. Fraser-Jenkins, sent to Mary from Portugal.
[BACK OF ENVELOPE] Dried herbarium specimens for research. No commercial value.