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Sir George Watt Collection
GB 235 WSG · Collection · 1851 - 1930

• Two boxes of papers and correspondence
• Box of original manuscripts in English of ‘First Step in Botany’, published in Bengali (1876)
• Box containing three books of correspondence
• Box of notes on Botany in Manipur
• Box of books and correspondence on Gossypium
• Box containing his diary from 1878, a notebook of P. Neill Fraser’s and a text book with specimens inside it.
• Box containing notebooks and plant lists
• Three boxes of cotton papers and correspondence
• Box containing papers on commercial products of India
• Box containing correspondence regarding commercial products of India
• Folder containing two of the same photograph, one mounted, one not, of Abies Smithiana, Noghanda-Bagi Forrest, Sisula
• Numerous boxes of glass plate negatives

Watt, Sir George
Skeleton Leaves
GB 235 SKE · Collection · 1854 - 1900

1 folder with the handwritten title "Skeleton Leaves Madeira 1854" - inside are 6 pages on blue folded paper containing skeletonised leaves inserted into cuts in the paper. Leaves include magnolia, ivy, oak, coral or erythrina crista-galli, sword coral, Portugal rose tree, common custard apple, lemon and citron. Who compiled it and wher it came from is currently unknown.
Also in the box are three loose leaves, found in the archives store, origin unknown.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
Slater, Andrew
GB 235 SLA · File · 2015

•Paper titled ‘Lectures on the Valuation of Woodlands and the Disposal of their Produce, with its Transport, Conversion, Qualities and Uses’.

Slater, Andrew
Smith, Rupert
GB 235 SMR · File · 1941 - 1942

•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942 to Prof. R Dennis, filed under “Smith, Rupert”

Smith, Rupert
Smith, Sir James Edward
GB 235 SJE · File · 1759 - 1828

•Correspondence with J. Brodie (1795-1811), T.C. Hope (1784-1785), and A. Menzies (1819) - all appears to be copies of correspondence held at the Linnean Society

Smith, Sir James Edward
Smith, William Gardner
GB 235 SWG · Item · 1866 - 1928

•Printed booklet of Lecture; Edinburgh School of Rural Economy 1895 – 1896, “Forest Botany”
•Re-print of “Geographical Distribution of Vegetation in Yorkshire; Part 2 – Harrogate & Skipton District”. From “The Geographical Journal, August, 1903”

Smith, William Gardner
GB 235 SMY · File · 1901 - 1949

•Correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to his expeditions to Garwhal and Sikkim (1937-1938)

Smythe, Frank S.
GB 235 SNE · Collection · 1879 - 1972

•6 binder boxes of artwork produced between c.1915 and c.1920, mainly Primulas and Rhododendrons
•Extract from Snelling’s obituary by the Earl of Morton, taken from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1973, vol.98, p.139, mounted onto card.

Snelling, Lilian
Somerville, Alex
GB 235 SOM · Collection · 1842 - 1907

•Herbarium catalogues, including London and South Africa, and a collecting book from Sierra Leone

Somerville, Alex
Southam slides - RBGE visits
GB 235 CTS · Collection · 1960 - 1979

5 boxes of slides, totalling around 400 slides, and an envelope "Botanic Garden Notes" (now in Box 1) of news clippings relating to the opening of the Glasshouses.

Corstorphine Trust