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•Copy of the Scrapbook of Robert Scarlett, containing mostly newspaper articles (1909-1953)

The book contains numbered sessions of creating microscope slides. The plant subject is listed along with the process used to create the slides and, in many cases, the slides' recipients. According to RBGE microscopist F. Christie, looking at the notes it appears to be plant fixation and histology prior to the preparation of microscope slides for light microscopy. Each part of the plant would need to be treated differently according to how easy it was to slice. The notes refer to the whole process of preparing the slides so for example, some of the samples didn’t cut very well first time but when soaked overnight produced better sections. This information would have saved a lot of experimentation in the future if the process was to be repeated.
The book was thought to By Matthew Young Orr's but his dates at RBGE do not match up with the dates of staff receiving the slides: John Anthony, Jimmy Keenan, Mr Roberts, Dr Blyth, Douglas Henderson, John Macqueen Cowan, Mr Lyle, P. Davies (Peter Davis?), Alexander Nelson, Dr Burns, Mr Green (Peter Green?), B.L. Burtt and Andrew Grierson. The book may have been created by Orr? But perhaps more likey Heather Prentice, Ella Stott, Willie Dickson or Archie McLeod?
The book was an unused 1941 diary.

•Seller’s ‘Syllabus of Examinations on Medical Subjects’

•Printed booklet of Lecture; Edinburgh School of Rural Economy 1895 – 1896, “Forest Botany”
•Re-print of “Geographical Distribution of Vegetation in Yorkshire; Part 2 – Harrogate & Skipton District”. From “The Geographical Journal, August, 1903”

•Annotated copy of William Jameson’s ‘Report Upon the Botanical Gardens of the Government, North Western Provinces’, Roorkee, Thomason C. E. College Press. (1855)

medal with University of Edinburgh crest on one side and Botany (Medical) Patricia M. James 1954-55 inscribed on the reverse in a box by Alex. Kirkwood and Son.

•Notebook containing an article for ‘Theosophist’ Aug – Nov 1917, titled “Francis Bacon and the Cipher Story”

•E.R. Wilding, ‘Index to the Genus Rhododendron ’Bucks, 1920

•Letter to P. Neill Fraser (7 Nov 1904)

Handwritten letter on 3 sides describing “new” method of propagation- “striking on the live plant”. By cutting 4/5 through the plant stalk and binding with damp moss a new shoot grows strongly and quickly. Anderson made successful experiments with fuchsia, heliotrope, jasmine, rose, etc. showing that this method can be used both in the greenhouse and in the open in situ. He grants Patrick Neill permission to publish them in the Transactions of the Caledonian Horticultural Society.