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1 folder of project publication and photograph by Corinne McDonough. Corinne was a 4th year photography student at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2014 and involved in a project looking at the need for libraries, human interactions with objects and behind the scenes views. She visited RBGE on the 20th March 2014 to take photographs, 3 of which ended up in the project publication, Ordo Librorum. This publication (1), one of the photographs (2) and two publicity cards (3) are in this small collection.
•monograph; 8 pencil written notes of a biographical nature (originator of letter was James Grieve) detailing his work on Violas at Dickson's Ltd. and extract of Roy Genders ‘Pansies and Violas’
Minute Books, Transactions and boxes containing exchange lists, correspondence regarding transactions, invoices and cheque books. BSS/1 - Society Laws, Annual Reports and Lists of Members BSS/2 - Botanical Society Minute Books BSS/3 - Council Minutes inc. Agendas, Annual Reports, etc. BSS/4 - Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh BSS/5 - Transactions Administration / Exchange Lists BSS/6 - Secretary's Papers inc. questionnaire results and name change referenda BSS/7 - Treasurer's Papers BSS/8 - Programme Correspondence inc. Symposia and Projects BSS/9 - Publications BSS/10 - Botanical Society Club BSS/11 - Centenary / Celebrations BSS/12 - Ephemera
Garden, The – It’s Formation and Furnishing •Series of Lectures – presumably by Prof. I.B. Balfour – filed with “Balfour, I. Bayley” papers – Box 4 of “Miscellaneous Papers – lecture notes, etc”
•2 boxes of notes on Rhododendrons •1 box containing notes on rhododendrons, a copy of an ecological study on the vegetation of Cyprus, first degree notes, a list of plant explorations in Western China, Lothian Plant collecting field notes, a survey of the flowering plants and their distribution in the Lothians, and a personal letter
1 folder containing correspondence, map, 3 photographs and report outlining the discovery of a hybrid orchid, Rhizanthera chevallierana, on Ben Lawers by David Mardon in 1979. The folder was compiled after a search for photographs of the plant taken by Mardon in 1984. Contents include, email correspondence between Clive Stace, Adele Smith and Lorna Mitchell outlining the search for photographs and compilation of the folder (2013), report and notes compiled by David K. Mardon in 1984 outlining his find, map showing where he found it, correpondence between Douglas McKean, [Paddy Woods], R.H. Roberts and David Mardon regarding the identification of the orchid, and three photographs taken by Mardon.
• Invitation to Royal Dinner – 400th Anniversary of the Union of the Crowns • Invitation to the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Carl Linnaeas • Notes written on the train to London, 4th Feb 2008 as an outline of contents for ‘Gardening the Earth’.
