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Notebook
GB 235 GBY/3/5/5 · Item · 2007 - 2011
Part of Professor Mary Gibby Collection

contains notes from:

conference/workshop presentations
meetings
specimen data?
other (e.g. to-do lists, plans)

loose document found in folder at the back of notebook (a receipt, email printout from her daughter - 29 Aug 2007, agenda for Edinburgh Consortium for Rural Research - 16 Nov 2011, draft agenda for Spore Bank Meeting - 13 Oct 2011, information about Moleskine notebooks)

Gibby, Professor Mary
Notebook
GB 235 GBY/3/5/6 · Item · 2010 - 2012
Part of Professor Mary Gibby Collection

contains notes from:

speeches (2)
conference/workshop presentations
meetings
Genealogy notes on: Annie Speight (b. 1896), Thomas Speight (b. 1870), Sarah Goodhall (b. 1856)
specimen data?
other (e.g. to-do lists)

contains a pressed plant material (x2) between pages, and 1 bit of pressed plant material in the folder on the back cover, enclosed in notebook paper.

Gibby, Professor Mary
Notebook
GB 235 GBY/3/5/7 · Item · 2013 - ?
Part of Professor Mary Gibby Collection

contains notes from:

'Antonovics Day' - lists Janis Antonovic's (Mary's husband) former students and a bit about their work. Janis would have reunion with former students, it would appear that Mary referred to the event as 'Antonovic's Day'
specimen data? (cytology note from 24 Jan 2013 - Aspelnium marinum)
list 'Ferns of Virginia'
Other (e.g. to-do list, travel planning, spec notes, schedule)

loose documents found folded in the middle:

obit of Stanley Walker (1924-1985)

Gibby, Professor Mary
GB 235 BBL · Collection · 1913 - 2009
  • Three passports
  • B.L. Burtt’s Obituary, Edinburgh Evening News, p.14, (7th of June 2008)
  • Two boxes of B.L Burtt’s notebooks
  • Three boxes containing reprints and annotated working copies of various journals and articles
  • in 2019 a folder of biographical information, including 3 photographs, compiled by Henry Noltie was added to the collection. It includes the obituaries and biographical articles Henry wrote, plus other obituaries, articles about Bill, and memories by him and about him.
Burtt, Brian Laurence
Notes at Davangere
LSH/1/1/4/1/188 · Part · 1933-11-09
Part of The Ludlow & Sherriff Collection

SUMMARY:
The page repeatedly notes 'Lud. at Davangere,' indicating an entry associated with Davangere.

CONTENT:
Lud. at Davangere

Lud. at Davangere

Lud. at Davangere

LSH/1/1/5/1/134 · Part · 1936-06-27
Part of The Ludlow & Sherriff Collection

SUMMARY:
The author notes a possible new Primula species (see opposite) and references specimen numbers 3052 and 3326. An additional shared trait with P. tenella is that both produce stolons ending in small leaves.

CONTENT:
See Primula sp nov? opposite.
No 3052 & No 3326.

An additional point in common with P. tenella is the fact that both have stolons shooting out, bearing small leaves at the end.

Notes for next trip
LSH/1/1/3/3/228 · Part · 1936-07-01
Part of The Ludlow & Sherriff Collection

SUMMARY:
Checklist of presents, photographic supplies (films, developer, filters), and other equipment for the next journey. Notes also specify clothing for servants, including Bistras for Pintso, Tenduk, and Tsongpen.

CONTENT:
Notes for next trip.

Presents. Broad cloth. Cellophane thick, yellow & red. Cigarettes.
Mirrors. Scissors. Needles ordinary large. Hats
Saffron. Safety pins. Pen torches.

Photographs. Dufaycolor F.Pks. Lumière cut films. (Two developing tanks
to fit.) Ilford supersensitive film packs & some cut films
same make. Rytol developer. A few Infra red. Filters
& sky shades all to fit both cameras.

Flower notes. Note book with 1/2 page for each of main interesting
species, & note places seen.

Clothes for servants. Bistras for Pintso, Tenduk & Tsongpen.

GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/8/6/1 · Item · 1904
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, no XII and XIII, published in November 1904 and containing information on the principal gardeners at RBGE, mainly John Williamson, Malcolm McCoig, Robert Menzies, John Mackay and George Don. The bulk of the document comprises George Claridge Druce's memoir 'The Life and Works of George Don' followed by Appendices A-E. Appendices F, G and postscript are in the following volume.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)