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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.
• One folder containing a 27 page manuscript paper titled Contribution to Natural History: Re the roots of the Bromeliaceé. Detailed examination of root behaviour in these and allied species.
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.
• Printed copy of Henslow's "Syllabus of Botanical Lectures"; edited and printed by Charles Babington, 22 April 1862. • References in printed papers dated 1828, 1829 & 1830 filed under “Cambridge, University of” • Letter dated 22nd Sep.1860, to Dr. Thos. Anderson – item 16 in bound volume filed under “Anderson, Dr. Thos” – Box 2
•Letter, dated 27 Feb 1913 to -------- -------- from I.B. Balfour & reply, dated 24 April 1913 •Also, letters dated 28 March 1913 & 30 March 1913 re: Primula; filed with Primula subject material under “Primula” (Box1) in main index - white folder.
•1 page of a draft of ‘A Survey of the Anatomy of the Rhododendron Leaf in relation to the Taxonomy of the Genus’, written by Hayes, Keenan and Cowan (copy in Index Box I-K) - original draft filed with J.M. Cowan papers •Folder containing- 11 page report titled ‘Battleby House: A Survey of Some Important Trees ’ (J. Eric Robson, October 1970), •3 copies each of Battleby Estate Management Plans 2 & 3 & “Trail” plans •28 page Report on “Battleby House Estate” by J Keenan, 19 October 1972; referencing 119 tree species •2 copies of two page ‘Battleby Report Continuation’ (J Keenan, 19 June 1973), duplicate copies tree records, 29 – 40, 79-107 &108-119 •4 letters to Keenan from Peter J. Bickmore, Projects Advisory Officer for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (letters from 1971-73) and one from Tom Huxley, Assistant Director of Resource Management for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, (1972) (Folder in in Index Box I-K)
•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