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GB 235 ANT/1 - photo album including photographs of John Anthony and his family, Edinburgh views and photos relating to World War One, including the Edinburgh University Officers Training Corps at Peebles in 1915 showing Cadets Brown, Purves, Mills, Anthony, Smith, Hatton and Wallinck; Anthony with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Oswestry and Llangollen (Anthony, Evans, Edwards, Gavin, Richards and Mitford) and Capt J Anthony M.C. and Capt J.H. Dick M.C. on the Somme in 1916. GB 235 ANT/2 - Transcripts of 'The Identification of British Trees, Shrubs and Under Shrubs by means of the Microscopic Structure of their Wood', including photographs - 2 copies, loose sheets. GB 235 ANT/3 - Original Manuscript for Flora of Sutherland, c.1970 - comparison with the published version shows the extent of J.B. Kenworthy's editing, as described in his introduction (right click, open link in new tab): http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/John_Anthonys_Flora_of_Sutherland
8 medals: 1857 Royal Botanic Society of London for pansies 1868 Glasgow and west of Scotland Horticultural Society for 24 blooms – Dahlias 1878 Royal Horticultural Society Sir Joseph Banks medal for cut blooms – Pansies 1897 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Jubilee Prize medal for group of plants 1901 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for flowering and foliage plants 1905 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for group of plants – internal exhib 1908? Leith Horticultural Industrial Sports Society for violas and pansies 1925 Royal Horticultural Society for hardy flowers
1 poem regarding the cessation of the Scottish Horticultural Association in 1921, "The Passing of the Scottish Horticultural Association" by Charles Comfort.
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.
•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence •Box containing images of Kemp for the RBGE Archive •Newspaper cuttings, a letter from Donald Roger, Branch Secretary of the Scottish Branch of the Arboricultural Association, and a letter from J. Kenneth Hume, Librarian and the RBGE (1999) all regarding the Ken Martin Memorial Award. (Filed in the miscellaneous I-K box
•Two volumes of ‘Memoire des Journées Forestières’, (May and June 1880) •Binder of photographs of Burma attributed to Lace •empty Box with ‘Lace ½ PL’ written on it in blue pencil, these photographs are now in the binder •7 individual folders containing large copies of Lace’s photographs
3 letters with their envelopes written to Thomas Douglas Grieve relating to his career - 05 January 1928, William Wright Smith to Thomas Douglas Grieve offering him a place on the probationer course; 15 March 1937, Lord Alness to Thomas Douglas Grieve offering best wishes on his post in Jamaica; 03 April 1937, John Macqueen Cowan to Thomas Douglas Grieve congratulating him on his post in Kingston, Jamaica.
Probationer Gardener Papers- 1 lecture synopsis and 7 exam papers sat by Grieve during his probationer gardener career at RBGE - lecture synopsis, 1929-1930; exam papers: Forest Botany, 03 April 1928; Botanical Nomenclature, 25 March 1929; Book-Keeping, 17 December 1929; British Timbers, 31 March 1930; Plant Propagation, 22 July 1930; Forest Botany (2), 30 March 1931; Plant Pathology, 13 July 1931;
copy of Dobbie's Horticultural Handbook, 1898 that mentions James Grieve (pp15, 16 and 25 (and John Downie on page 11)) - this book is now in the library collection.
•10 folders of plant lists •List of Léveillé / Leveille duplicates sent to Tokyo and Seoul •Léveillé Plantae Novae Sandwicencis •List of correct names for Léveilléan species described in the wrong family •Léveillé lists •Folder containing Douglas McKean’s correspondence and research relating to the re-organisation and identification of RBGE’s Léveillé herbarium. •File containing a Dicots Index – working copy for counting Léveillé Taxa, Douglas McKean’s notebook on Léveillé Chinese and Indian localities, and Douglas McKean’s notes and correspondence relating to Léveillé’s Carex types. •Correspondence with I.B. Balfour filed with “Balfour, I.Bayley” papers under “Léveillé, H.”
