RBGE acknowledges that our collections contain historic materials which may contain, either in their content or catalogue descriptions, terminology which is inappropriate, outdated, offensive or distressing. Such information does not reflect the current views and values of RBGE. We welcome feedback about the language in our catalogues. While we cannot change fixed attributes connected to items in the collection (e.g. published titles, names or contents) we will always consider requests for changes to be made to other aspects of the records in our catalogues. Please contact archives@rbge.org.uk
I Understand and Wish to Continue or Return to Home Page
Two boxes of card indices - one card per plant appearing in the B.S.B.I. vascular plant survey of the Midlothian Vice County V.C.83, listing the historic literature relating to each plant.
List produced on RBGE embossed paper, bound together to form a book; beginning with Ranunculaceae, there are 330 pages of plants growing in the Garden in 1883 (though the 3 could also be interpreted as a 5); the book has an index at the back.
Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Burma's Icy Mountains', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, January 1948, pp.9-17
Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Tibet as a Grazing Land', reprint from the Royal Geographical Journal, vol. CX, January 1948, pp.60-75
2 Airgraph letters from William Wright Smith to George Sherriff found inserted here, 4 Sep 1943 and 4 Feb 1944, moved to correspondence folder and filed alongside other similar Airgraph letters
Sir Robert Reid, 'India's North-East Frontier', reprint from the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 1944, pp.165-174
Sir Robert Reid, 'The Excluded Areas of Assam', reprint from The Geographical Journal, Vol. 103, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Feb., 1944), pp.18-29 - with photos
Frank Kingdon Ward, 'Botanical and Geographical Exploration in the Assam Himalaya', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v. XCVI, No.1, July 1940, pp.1-13
J. Hanson-Lowe, 'A Journey along the Chinese-Tibetan border', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society Journal, May 1940, pp.357-367 - with photos
H.W. Tilman, 'Peaks of the Assam Himalaya', reprint from Royal Geographic Society Journal, November 1939, pp.402-404
F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Irrawaddy Plateau', reprint from the Royal Geographic Society, October 1939, pp.293-308 - with photos
F. Kingdon Ward, 'The Distribution of Primulas from the Himalaya to China, with Descriptions of some New Species', reprint from Annals of Botany, v.XLIV, No.CLXXIII, January 1930, pp.111-125, annotated by George Sherriff
Ronald Kaulback, 'A Journey in the Salween and Tsangpo Basins, South-Eastern Tibet', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.XCI, No.2, pp.97-122 - with photos
Patrick Fitzgerald, 'The Yunnan-Burma Road', reprint from The Geographical Society Journal, v.XCV, No.3, March 1940, pp.161-174 - with photos
Swami Pranavananda, 'The Sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus, Sutlej and Karnali: with notes on Manasarowar and Rakas Tal', reprint from Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, February 1939, pp.126-135 - with photos
H.W. Tilman, 'The Mount Everest Expedition of 1938', reprint from the Geographical Journal, v.XCII, No.6, December 1938, pp.481-498 - with photos
C.B.M. Warren, 'Mountain-Sickness and the Physiological Problems of High Altitude Mountaineering', reprint from the Alpine Journal, November 1939, pp.271-283 - with photos
Col. R. Meinertzhagen, 'On the Birds of Northern Afghanistan', reprint from Ibis, 1938, pp.480-520
C.P. Fitgerald, 'The Tiger's Leap', reprint from The Geographical Journal, v.98, no.3, September 1941, pp.147-153 - with photos
•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.
