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Pressed Plant Greetings Card, presumably sent at New Year, 1937-1938.
The pressed plant is a Maianthemum bifolium and was found in the Herbarium collection of Donald Patton alongside his Maianthemum bifolium specimen with the barcode E01360448 by digitiser Rebecca Camfield. The card was sent from 6 Glenan Gardens, Helensburgh and has the message 'Wishing you all much happiness in 1938'. Rebecca's research shows that the card is likely to have been created by Mrs Elizabeth Ewing and was sent by her to Donald Patton at the end of 1937 / start of 1938; an online search of the address on the card revealed a Watson Botanical Exchange Club member's list from 1926-1927 which provided a name of Mrs Ewing. Searching this name and the address Rebecca learnt that this was Mrs Elizabeth R. Ewing, married in 1901 to Peter Ewing. They had met as both part of the Glasgow and Andersonian Natural History and Microscopical Society, where she met several other prominent botanists. He became the President of said society in 1902, yet dies young in 1913. She became President herself between 1919 and 1920. Their herbarium went to Glasgow Herbarium after her death in 1951 at the age of 90.
In 1951 Donald Patton was the President of the Society according to their journal 'The Glasgow Naturalist' which he also edited. They were in the same circles and were probably friends. So this is highly likely like to be a little card she sent to Donald Patton in 1938 which he placed with his own collection of the species. It could also be as that was the year she resigned as the delegate for the British Association for the society?
Most of the above research was obtained from the Naturalist's obituary written by John R. Lee.
(right click, open link in new tab) https://archive.org/stream/glasgowna141519401946ande/glasgowna141519401946ande_djvu.txt

Set of material relating to David Wilkie and his work including:
book of typed notes on gentians
Wilkie's typewriter
3 photograph albums of plants at RBGE
wooden box of microscope slides

Folder containing notes, correspondence and a draft of E. Charles Nelson's article entitled '"A botanical encampment at the foot of Ben Voirlich, June 22nd 1821" by Robert Kaye Greville, and a Scottish beetle' destined to be published in the Archives of Natural History, April 2011, vo. 38, No. 1 : pp. 96-103. There are scans of the engraving in the file, along with correspondence to and from E. Charles Nelson, Jennifer Woods (RBGE Herbarium) and John Mitchell of the Nature Conservancy Council. The article mentions William Jackson Hooker, John Scouler and David Douglas. Many of the notes appear to be by Jennifer Woods, which indicates that the folder was passed to the RBGE Archives by her c. 2019.

E.C. Nelson's Abstract: “A botanical encampment at the foot of Ben Voirlich June 22d. 1821” by Robert Kaye Greville, and a Scottish beetle

A lithograph and an “etching” depicting the same botanical excursion into the Scottish Highlands in June 1821 led by Professor William Jackson Hooker are reunited. The encampment depicted was on the west shore of Loch Lomond at the base of Ben Vorlich in Dunbartonshire. The participants probably included John Scouler and David Douglas, but a French entomologist, Charles Nodier, missed the excursion. A few weeks afterwards in the Highlands Nodier found some insects he did not recognize and named one, a beetle, after Hooker.

KEY WORDS: Scotland – Ben Lomond – William Jackson Hooker – Charles Nodier – Carabus hookeri

12x 35mm colour slides in a plastic wallet housed with a blue title card that states:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Some Views and Plants of the Garden
12 Colour Transparencies (35mm)
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland

The slides are titled:

• Herbarium in Winter
• Cactus House
• Herbaceous Border
• Victoria 'Longwood Hybrid'
• Rock Garden and Stream
• Beech tree in Autumn
• Plant Houses [Palm House]
• Nomocharis mairei
• Nymphaea 'Midnight'
• Pond
• Rock Garden
• Gentiana lutea

Collection currently comprising two folders, more expected. Olive's field books are currently held in Burtt collection.

The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives, and articles relating to Sykes’ 1952 and 1954 expeditions to Nepal, organised by the British Museum and the Royal Horticultural Society. Also includes slides, correspondence, articles, maps, and other material from the 1980s to 2018.

Note on slides and photographs: slides are labelled on the mount (except for metal mounts) with details of date, locale, a descriptive caption, and, sometimes, elevation. Sykes’s handwritten notes (in pocket preceding each group of slides) supply more details. Photographs are labelled on the verso with details of date, locale, a descriptive caption, and, sometimes, elevation.

Aside from the expected botanical images and mountain views and scenery, the subjects of Sykes’s slides and photographs are wide-ranging, including villages and villagers, village houses, street scenes, bazaars, markets, festivals, porters, camp sites, camp activities, nomadic people, Hindu and Buddhist temples, shrines, monks, nuns, and monasteries, Buddhist statues, plant processing, seed drying, animals, cultivation and crops, activities such as wool processing, making ropes and mats, spinning and weaving, and brick making.

11 binders of Mike Richardson's coprolitic fungi collection notes, taken from samples of animal dung between c. 1996-2020, from locations around the U.K., Iceland and the Falkland Islands.

2 volumes of unpublished manuscript produced by Janet Rae in the early 1980s. George MacDougall may have typed the manuscripts. The idea was to produce something similar to a book already published, but it was considered too expensive and that there was not enough demand to publish this one. The manuscript does include illustrations, including at least one original pen and ink sketch by Alan McGillveray, and constitutes a description of Edinburgh's changing landscapes in c.1983.
The accession also includes 2x 2020 calendars marking the Society's 150th anniversary in 2019.

The list is titled 'Lindberg Itinerary' and is essentially a list of field numbers alongside a location and date.
The locations all appear to be in and around Afghanistan.
There is a note attached to the list in Ian Hedge's handwriting that states: 'These lists of Lindberg collections refer to his zoological and not botanical gatherings. They are therefore only useful in knowing where he collected on particular days. No comprehensive lists of his botanical collections exist, but a paper by Rechinger and Riedl (Ann. Nat. Mus. Wien 65:29-37 (1962) deals with the plants he collected in the Wakhan area.'
Library acc no. ECEU1: (right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78813&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20lindberg

This collection comprises some items that accompanied a donation to the RBGE Herbarium (01700) in April 2024; the folder in the RBGE Archives includes Ogilvie's passport, 1968-1978 and a letter that was found inside a pamphlet that was part of the donation (Min. Agr & Fisheries Bull. no.123 6th ed. 1969); John G.S. Marshall to L. Ogilvie, 31/12/1971, discussing the popularity of the Bulletin, plans for a Spanish version and a revision.
Two copies of Diseases of Vegetables, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Bulletin No. 123 were included in the accession; the first, (2nd ed. 1944) is annotated and to be catalogued and housed in the RBGE Library Periodicals section alongside the second (6th ed. 1969).
The accession also includes a print out of Ogilvie's Wikipedia page (in the Archives folder), and a cover note from his son, W. Duncan Ogilvie (in the Archives Accession file), who donated the collection in April 2024.