Scottish Natural History Society Photograph Album
- GB 235 SNH
- Bestanddeel
- 1897 - 1898
1 photograph album showing the range of activities of the Scottish Natural History Society at the end of the 1890s.
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Scottish Natural History Society Photograph Album
1 photograph album showing the range of activities of the Scottish Natural History Society at the end of the 1890s.
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Snelling, Lilian - MBE, V.M.H (Victoria Medal in Horticulture)
•4 solander boxes of artwork produced between c.1915 and c.1920, mainly Primulas and Rhododendrons
•Extract from Snelling’s obituary by the Earl of Morton, taken from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1973, vol.98, p.139, mounted onto card.
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Smythe, (Francis “Frank”) Sydney
•Correspondence; newspaper clippings relating to his expeditions to Garwhal and Sikkim (1937-1938)
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•Correspondence from Rupert Smith 1941 – 1942 to Prof. R Dennis, filed under “Smith, Rupert”
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•Paper titled ‘Lectures on the Valuation of Woodlands and the Disposal of their Produce, with its Transport, Conversion, Qualities and Uses’.
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1 folder with the handwritten title "Skeleton Leaves Madeira 1854" - inside are 6 pages on blue folded paper containing skeletonised leaves inserted into cuts in the paper. Leaves include magnolia, ivy, oak, coral or erythrina crista-galli, sword coral, Portugal rose tree, common custard apple, lemon and citron. Who compiled it and wher it came from is currently unknown.
Also in the box are three loose leaves, found in the archives store, origin unknown.
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Swarbrick, John T. (Specialist Officer Cameroons; collecting 1958 - 1963)
•Papers regarding the Victoria Botanic Gardens, Southern Cameroons (1916-1961)
•Papers regarding horticulture and agriculture in Southern Nigeria (1906)
•Illustrations, drawings and abstracts.
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•Prize essay, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’ (July 1869)
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•Annotated copy of William Jameson’s ‘Report Upon the Botanical Gardens of the Government, North Western Provinces’, Roorkee, Thomason C. E. College Press. (1855)
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•Correspondence with J. Brodie (1795-1811), T.C. Hope (1784-1785), and A. Menzies (1819) - all appears to be copies of correspondence held at the Linnean Society
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