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•Numerous copies and photocopies of a pamphlet outlining the aims, membership, benefits and profile of The Institute of Horticulture. •Numerous copies of a brochure issued by The Institute of Horticulture, titled ‘Come into Horticulture’ •Numerous copies of application forms for student membership of I.O.H. •Letter from Angela Clarke, General Secretary of I.O.H., inviting J.A. Ross Kerby to become a member of the Careers Advisory Bureau (21/01/1992) •Envelope containing membership fees for 1992 and numerous copies of the membership application forms •Envelope containing headed note paper for the I.O.H. •Various information sheets about the I.O.H •Numerous copies of membership enquiry forms Also stored with these items are photographs of a ship, ‘Cunard’, a group of people, and glass houses – all of them unlabelled. There is also an envelope of photographs labelled ‘Quarantine House Site during construction?’ (1988), given to Ross Kerby by Ken Grant.
•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.
•22 page, bound article written by Hamish Johnston adding new information about the Dickson nurserymen families to an article written by Priscilla Minay for the Old Edinburgh Club Vol. 1 1991. Accompanied by 2 pages of corrections to the Dickson entries in Ray Desmond’s Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists. 6 pages of email correspondence with Archive Librarian at RBGE (Feb.2011)
GB 235/ASH/1/1-16: 1 box of 16 mounted photographs showing the felling of the Ash tree in 1992; and GB 235 ASH/2: part of one of the tree limbs sliced into sections by Tim Stead to show the damage done internally by fungus; tree limb sections can be arranged to form an artistic sculpture.
Correspondence, Photographs, Orders, Invoices and Plans to and from Mo Farquharson, David Mitchell (RBGE), Benjamin Tindall (Architect) and Clara Govier (RBGE) outlining the ideas and plans behind the sculptural installations of animals in the new Arid House at RBGE, 1998-2000. Includes 54 photographs taken in around 1999 by Mo Farquharson showing the installed sculptures in the Arid House.
• Invitation to Royal Dinner – 400th Anniversary of the Union of the Crowns • Invitation to the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Carl Linnaeas • Notes written on the train to London, 4th Feb 2008 as an outline of contents for ‘Gardening the Earth’.
