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•Letter to W.H. Campbell form Rollo (8 April 1840)
Sans titre• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden
This is a set of ledgers and notebooks that document seed and live plant material being sent to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, who donated them, where from and when.
Sans titreSeed Donation Ledger which dates from 1810 to 1817 and documents donations of plants coded B-TE from around Britain and the World. There is a chronological index at the back.
The ledger appears to have been started by new Head Gardener William McNab and begins with an entry described as 'The following seeds were found in a Table Drawer in the Garden House when I came here, part of them I think have been rec'd from Mr. Donn of Cambridge. W. M'N'.
Seed Donation Ledger with 'Seed Book 1818-1822' on the spine which dates from 1818 to 1823 and documents donations of plants coded A-FN from around Britain and the World. There is a chronological index at the back.
Sans titreSeed Donation Ledger with 'Seeds 1823-1824' on the spine which dates from 1823 to 1826 and documents donations of plants coded FO-IT from around Britain and the World. There is a chronological index at the back.
Sans titreSeed Donation Ledger with '[Donations] Seeds 1830-1838' on the spine which dates from 1830 to 1838 and documents donations of plants coded HX-RL from around Britain and the World. There is a chronological index at the back.
Some pages, 137-144 have been torn out of the book, but the donors are listed in the index.
There is a pressed plant inserted at page 196; handle ledger with care.
Seed Donation Ledger with 'Seeds Received 1838-1844' on the spine which dates from 1838 to 1844 and documents donations of plants coded RM-XC from around Britain and the World. There is no index.
The ledger has been rebound in red buckram.
Seed Donation Ledger with 'Seed Book 1849-1863' on its spine and cover which dates from 1849 to 1863 and documents donations of plants coded A-FG from around Britain and the World. There is an alphabetic index at the front.
There are inserts in the ledger, including letters to John Hutton Balfour and James McNab; handle ledger with care.