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•File containing typescript extracts relating to the Royal College of Physicians, (1761-1899)
Royal College of Physicians[COVER] "BOTANY: CHROMOSOMES"
A table with the following headings across the top [Left to Right]: "No., DATE, DEPT. SPECIMEN or CO-ORDINATES, OPERATOR, TECHNIQUE, OBJECTIVE, OPTOVAR, OCCULAR, FINAL MAG. FILM. REF."
Loose inside are black and white photograph prints and negatives, presumably correspond to the notebook. (found: inside front cover, between pages: 2/3,4/5,6/7,12/13,14/15)
Gibby, Professor Mary[COVER] "BOTANY CHROMOSOMES"
A table with the following headings across the top [Left to Right]: "No., DATE, DEPT. SPECIMEN or CO-ORDINATES, OPERATOR, TECHNIQUE, OBJECTIVE, OPTOVAR, OCCULAR, FINAL MAG. FILM. REF."
Gibby, Professor Mary[COVER] "PHOTOMICROGRAPHY NEGATIVE RECORD CHROMOSOMES ONLY WEF: 9 SEPT 1982"
[SPINE] "CHROMOSOMES RECORD"
A table with the following headings across the top [Left to Right]: "No., DATE, DEPT. SPECIMEN or CO-ORDINATES, OPERATOR, TECHNIQUE, OBJECTIVE, OPTOVAR, OCCULAR, FINAL MAG. FILM. REF."
Gibby, Professor Mary[COVER] "PHOTOGRAPHY"
lists of specimens (with collection/accession numbers)
Gibby, Professor Mary•Box containing photographs of an expedition to China, and George Forrest related photographs, 2003
Paterson, Leonie20 photographs showing the development of the Rock Garden in around 1938-39 (x17) the arrival of the large stone trough from House o'Hill for the alpine yard c.1936? (x2) and Primula reidii taken by David Wilkie
MacKenzie, William GregorThe photographs cover a wide variety of activity at RBGE and many were used in the book 'How the Garden Grew' by L. Paterson. There are student groups, work in the Rock Garden c.1938-39, the Palm House, shots around the garden including snow clearing, staff/students prior to the Second World War including Henry W. Moseley, William G. Webster, James G. Crabbe, W.S. Neil, John E.G. Beach, Ronald J. Smith and also Jack Roberts. Trip to Loch Lomond (Guild?), Laboratory Shots and Jack Roberts dressed up as the Rag Queen on May Day 1948.
Hayes, Stuart F.•Folder containing photographs of trees, (1901), used in Percy [Groom’s] ‘Trees and their Life Histories’ (1907), found in the National Museum of Scotland. [accession 2005/08]
•Four small folders containing photos of plants and flowers, dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
•Four large folders containing photos of plants and flowers dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
Three photographs of Park Keepers at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh featuring George Tait, donated by his family in 2026.
George Tait (1872-1950) was a Park Keeper at RBGE between 1911 and Dec.1936; he served in the Boer War and WW1; Royal Scots / 1st Gordon Highlanders.
/1 - 'Granddad Tait Britanical Gdns' - photograph of George Tait at West Gate Lodge(?)
/2 - Park Keepers, Royal Botanic Gdns, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1935, G.Tait; photograph showing seven Park Keepers at RBGE in 1935; presumably George Tait (front, right) and his colleagues, Sgt John M. Lugton, Arthur W. Hudson, Douglas Hunter, James D. Kerr, Robert M. MacLeish and Henry M. Smith.
/3 - 'Granddad Tait, Gatehouse, Botanic Gardens'; photograph showing three Park Keepers at a gate box; George Tait in the centre.
A biography of George Tait was provided by his family; kept with accession records.