University of Edinburgh Botany Class Registers
- GB 235 RBG/9/1/1/CR
- Subseries
- 1831-1877
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
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University of Edinburgh Botany Class Registers
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
University of Edinburgh Practical Botany and Vegetable Histology Class Lists
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
University of Edinburgh Botany Class Lists, Indices and Registers
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
The lists consist of a series of registers, lists and indices relating to the Edinburgh University Botany and Practical Botany classes held at RBGE.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh archives
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Two boxes of correspondence, seed lists and field notes to, from and relating to Reginald Farrer and his expeditions to Kansu (Gansu) in Northern China (1914-1915) and Upper Burma (1919-1920) and one box containing a photo album and letter. These records were likely brought together from various sources within the RBGE Archives so that items relating to Farrer were kept together. It has been decided to keep this collection together.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
This box comprises mainly correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer and Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (1888-1922) but there is also correspondence to/from Sir/Colonel David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes, George Redman of the Craven Nursery, and Edward Arnold.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour correspondence, Kansu
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer Correspondence (82 letters in 2 folders) relating to Farrer and Purdom's expedition to Kansu [Gansu] province in north China between 1914 and 1915.
folder 1, letters 1-40 includes correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour, David Prain, Arthur W. Hill, W.R. Dykes (regarding Farrer's irises from China) and George Redman of Farrer's Craven nursery.
folder 2, letters 41-82 includes correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour, George Redman, and Edward Arnold, publisher, regarding problems with an appendix to one of Farrer's books.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour correspondence, Burma
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer correspondence (41 letters in 1 folder) relating to Farrer and Cox's expedition to Burma [Myanmar] between 1919 and 1920.
1 folder, including correspondence to and from Reginald Farrer, Isaac Bayley Balfour and S.R. Fasoms(?),Linoel de Rothschild and E. L'Estrange P. Thompson.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Two folders relating to Farrer's second expedition to Upper Burma between 1919 and 1920 and his death there. Correspondence is mainly between Farrer and William Wright Smith, Deputy Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, but also Isaac Bayley Balfour, Lionel de Rothschild, S.R. Fasoms, and post Farrer's death, Claude Barton of the Ingleborough Estate Office, Colonel Stephenson Clarke, Euan H.M. Cox, H.M. Farrer of Farrer and Co. solicitors [dealing with Farrer's estate] and Farrer's mother, Bessie requesting coloured paintings of Gentiana farreri and Lilium farreri so that glass windows may be made up for the church in Clapham.
There are also seed and plant lists, identifications and distribution lists to subscribers [though no list of subscribers was found].
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer - correspondence with Douglas Henderson et al, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Folder of mainly copy letters from Reginald Farrer to Euan H.M. Cox dating between February and September 1920, some typed transcripts, all copied by Cox's son Peter in 1987, alongside associated correspondence between Peter Cox and D.M. Henderson, then Regius Keeper at RBGE, arranging to have the letters copied and stored at RBGE.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)