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black and white photograph

Photograph of an Mr JH Hicks (right) and a Bhutanese family (man, woman, and child)

writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

The Dzongpon of Lhuntzi
Bhutan, 1949
9/8/49

1 - 7"x10"Photograph taken at The Ecology and Conservation of Scotland's Rare Ferns conference, a meeting of the British Pteridological Society at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) Thursday 28 - Sunday 31 July 1994.

Photograph includes a key, identifying all figures in the photograph from the conference. Also lists, those absent from the photograph.

Mary Gibby #75 in key, 2nd/3rd row from top at the end on right side

1 manuscript. Handwritten. Photocopy. Annotations in pencil.

[TITLE] The Fern Flora of Madeira
no author listed but written in J.D. Lovis' handwritting.

[written in red ink in top right corner] Prof. I. Manton

1 black and white photograph mounted on thick black paper.

Photograph of a river bank, ferry on the shore. 3 people on the boat. Forested hills in the background across the water.

Writing on the back

[TRANSCRIPTION]

The ferry over the Trongsa Chu
31/Mar/49
49.A.7.5

Garden, The – It’s Formation and Furnishing
•Series of Lectures – presumably by Prof. I.B. Balfour – filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers – Box 4 of “Miscellaneous Papers – lecture notes, etc”

1 book containing signatures of visitors to the Logan House gardens between 1949 and 1967. Signatures include many significant figures in the horticultural world- Euan and Peter Cox, Vita Sackville-West using her married name of Nicolson, Cicely M. Crewdson, George Taylor, numerous landowners, members of RBGE staff and, in 1955, HRH, Elizabeth R.

A collection of documents relating to the Guernsey Fern Project.

The Guernsey Fern [X Asplenophyllitis microdon (T.Moore) Alston = Asplenium × microdon (T.Moore) Lovis & Vida]

The Guernsey Rare Fern Project Summary

Conservation of Guernsey’s rare ferns. The investigation of Guernsey’s rare ferns, a collaboration between La Société Guernesiaise and the Board of Administration by staff at Natural History Museum (NHM), London. Funded by the Sun Alliance. Five botanists from NHM: Mary Gibby, Clive Jermy, Alison Paul, Fred Rumsey, and Johannes Vogel, carried out field work in Guernsey in April 1996 in collaboration with local botanists: Nigel Jee, Patience Ryan, Rachel D. Rabey, and Marcia Marsden. Investigated the distribution of Guernsey’s rare ferns and their conservation status based on field and laboratory work.

5 lists printed on a dot matrix printer. Sheets measure approx.370mmx280mm.

1) Hoarea Project Numbers, "Sort: Project Numbers," 16 February 1995 (14 pages)
2) Hoarea Project Numbers, "Sort: Taxon; Project Numbers," 16 February 1995 (14 pages)
3) Hoarea Project Numbers, "Sort: Taxa," 25 April 1997 (14 pages)
4) Hoarea Project Numbers, "Hoarea Project Numbers," 24 July 1998 (15 pages)
5) Hoarea Project Numbers, "Sort: Taxon, projed-numbers," 24 July 1998 (15 pages)

Lists includes STEU collection numbers & localities