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Annotated transcript of Rock’s Diary, Vol. 4, 1925
Transcript has been prepared for Rock and has been annotated by him to include corrections and Chinese characters.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 8, Cho-ni to Sung-pan, 1927 entitled Diary of Joseph F.C Rock, Director Arnold Arboretum Expedition, Vol. VIII, Journey from Choni via Tebbu country to Chungking, March 9th to April 18th [22nd], 1927.
Includes Sept. 14, Oct. 11 1952; Feb. 24-26 1954, New Year 1956-1957 and Aug. 31 1951.
Diary includes Chinese maps and ink sketches of Hawaiian landscapes.
Contains loose map of Minchow ['new country'] dated to 18 Dec. 1925 (with the compliments of J, McGillivray), pressed flowers and notes.

Transcript of Rock’s Diary, Vol. 8, 1927 entitled 'Cho-ni to Sung-Pan; Journey from Cho-ni via The-wu country to Chung-Cheng, Director Arnold Arboretum, Harvard Expedition. From March 9 to April 22 1927, Volume No. VIII (8)'
Transcript has been prepared for Rock and includes the corrections made in his annotated copy and although space has been left for him to add Chinese / Tibetan characters, this was not done.

•Letter to W.H. Campbell form Rollo (8 April 1840)

Correspondence pertaining to H.M. Office of Works War Memorial (WWI), including correspondence from Lady Balfour, list of RBGE staff who joined H.M. Forces, invitation to and programme for War Memorial Unveiling (7 February 1923); postcard with photograph of grave of James M. Hampson, Garden Labourer (killed in action 8 March 1918)

A candlestick holder and mirror frame crafted from trial pieces produced when creating the rhododendron gate for the Inverleith East Gate entrance to RBGE

7 boxes containing correspondence, reports, minutes, circulars and agendas produced by the CSSF (Committee for the Study of the Scottish Flora)

Box containing glass plate negatives, lantern slides and microscope slides relating to William Burns's time in India, 1908-1943.

Box of correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour, to be added to Isaac Bayley Balfour's correspondence collection in due course.
There is a reference to John MacWatt and Lilian Snelling in letter 11 from 1915 (Snelling also in letters 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 24, 29, 36, 38, 40 - and again throughout 1916. Refs to Snelling coming to Edinburgh and Mrs Balfour getting her lodgings in November 1917. Ref to Snelling attending IBB's lectures, April 1918
Letter from Dr Homi (Yasuyoshi) Shirasawa in 1910.
27 Sept 1913 - reference to Robert Moyes Adam's private work
31 Aug 1914 - reference to Isaac Bayley Balfour's thoughts on photography versus botanical illustrations
26 April 1915 - reference to Inverleith House being commandeered for military purposes
6 May 1915 - referreing to Snelling and Moyes Adam, "She is undoubtedly very clever - a fine colourist. I have given instructions to my photographer to photograph everything she does on the day she draws it so that we may have a sun picture of what she has drawn"
references to Col. F. Bailey's wounds, 1915
15 June 1915 - reference to L.B. Stewart enlisting
1915, 41 - copy letter from G.H. Cave

Correspondence, Photographs, Orders, Invoices and Plans to and from Mo Farquharson, David Mitchell (RBGE), Benjamin Tindall (Architect) and Clara Govier (RBGE) outlining the ideas and plans behind the sculptural installations of animals in the new Arid House at RBGE, 1998-2000. Includes 54 photographs taken in around 1999 by Mo Farquharson showing the installed sculptures in the Arid House.