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A collection of material from and relating to the plantsman and primula specialist Dr. John MacWatt including photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, papers, nursery catalogues, articles, medals and certificates.

2 reprints written by H.H. Hu and gifted to W.W. Smith, rather than be withdrawn from the collection, 2 reprints were selected to be archived in order to provide a tangible link to one of the Chinese botanists who worked at RBGE in the 1930s, of whom little evidence is left in the RBGE Archives.

• 'Smithiodendron, a new Genus of Moraceae' by H.H. Hu, Separate from Sunyatsenia, vol. 3, No. 2-3, issued May 12, 1936, signed to W.W. Smith by Hu.
• 'Recent Progress in Botanical Exploration in China' by H.H. Hu, Reprinted from the Journal of the R.H.S. vol.LXIII, Part 8, 1938, signed to W.W. Smith by Hu, has Smith's stamp and a Christmas postcard sent to Smith as an insert.

Catalogue produced by RBGE for the Sjoerd Buisman exhibition at Inverleith House, 4 August to 10 September 1989. Text by Paul Nesbitt and Robert Breen.

•1 box of miscellaneous papers and glass plate negatives regarding Bhutan, 1949, also 3 reels of film, now converted to DVD:

• Diary Materials 1, 1949
• Diary Materials 2, 1949
• Transcript of Diaries by David Shepherd - not for reproduction
• letters, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff, Frank Ludlow and David Humphreys
• Christmas cards, mainly from George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow, usually illustrated with photographs or Margaret Stones illustrations
• small box of 12 glass lantern transparencies, mostly plant portraits - tape around slides very brittle; annotations in danger of being lost, so handle with extreme care
• cine film x 3 - converted to dvd
• 'misc' folder; contains LSH seed lists 1949 documents and key to the cine film
• newspaper cuttings - mostly relating to Bhutan
• 'misc' publications - mostly relating to Bhutan, some by Frank Ludlow

This collection consists of material created and gathered from the expeditions of F. Ludlow and G. Sherriff, thought their expeditions of Bhutan and Tibet during 1933-1949.

The collection consists of 5 sub-series: plant documents, expedition documents, diaries, correspondence and visual material.

[1] This series consists of a variety of material which includes plant and seed lists from their expedition with a large focus on Primula, Meconopsis and Rhododendrons, as well as publications gathered by Ludlow and Sherriff which cover their shared interest in the Himalayan region and it's flora and fauna. There is also a garden register donated by the Knox Finlay family detailing the progress of plants/seeds in their gardens acquired from various expeditions including Ludlow and Sherriff's between 1951-52.

[2] This series consists of a variety of expedition documents ranging from itineraries and maps to administration lists and passports.

[3] This series consists of originals and photocopies of the diaries of Sherriff and Ludlow during their expeditions.

[4] This series consists of a variety of correspondence from and to Sherriff and Ludlow over the course of their expeditions.

[5] This series consists of a variety of material including: photographic material, films and videos. Photographic material ranges from prints and negatives taken by Sherriff and Ludlow to prints of digital images taken as exhibition documentation in 2014. The films are..... There have been dvd surrogates made of the films to ensure continued accessibility.

•Two boxes containing pre- and post-expedition correspondence (1973-1996) and reports

Journal written by Emilius Dubuc outlining his voyage from Bombay [Mumbai] on H.M.S. Cyclops commencing May 5 1860, accompanied by a series of letters added to the journal by Dubuc's mother, Mary Ann Dubuc, plus a transcription of the journal likely created by Bob Galt in the 1990s/early 2000s.