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Ledgers listing plants, seeds and bulbs donated to the RBGE Horticultural Herbaceous Department between 1893 and 1923, around which time the Herbaceous Department appears to merge with the Glass Dept.

Ledger listing plants, seeds and bulbs purchased by the RBGE Horticultural Herbaceous Department between 1912 and around 1924, around which time the Herbaceous Department appears to merge with the Glass Dept.

Rita Calder was a mounter in the Herbarium and documented her mounting numbers in notebooks before the advent of an electronic Mounting Backlog spreadsheet now held on SharePoint. LIVE Mounting Backlog Spreadsheet.xlsx
These notebooks are handwritten and document the year and date collections were submitted for mounting and then when they were completed (1983 – 2008). From 2007 the new mounter Kate Eden also completed entries, obvious by a change in handwriting. They also make references to specimens which were repaired and which member of staff submitted them.
There appear to be two sets of books. The ones with In/Out columns are specimens mounted in any given month/year. The other books are a record of specimens coming into the Mounting Room in any given year. They record the country of origin and the donor or member of RBGE staff who submitted them. They could be viewed in the context of the Incoming Specimen/Donation books already held in the Archive.