Ascreavie Seed Sowing Record 1951-1983
- GB235 ASC
- Fonds
- 1951 - 1986
36 pages of copied seed sowing records made at Ascreavie by David Smith
Smith, David
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Ascreavie Seed Sowing Record 1951-1983
36 pages of copied seed sowing records made at Ascreavie by David Smith
Smith, David
The collection dates between 1769 and c2003 and comprises:
Blaikie, Thomas, 1751-1838, gardener
Printed papers regarding the Cambridge Botanical Museum and Library (1828, 1829 and 1830)
3 printed annual reports (3 x 4 pages, 200 x 250mm) of The Botanical Museum & Library at Cambridge University; dated 25 March 1828, 25 March 1829, 25 March 1830.
The 1828 report outlines the start of a proper funded botanical museum. Prof Henslow lists present acquisitions and solicits help in augmenting the collection. The 1829-30 reports demonstrate success in increasing the collection of plant samples and publications.
Cambridge University Botanical Museum & Library
2 labels for identifying part of the process of India Rubber / Gutta Percha production and 7 book plates on note paper forming a small collection.
Book plates: Churchill Babington, John Hutton Balfour, Henry Collins, Daniel Cresswell, Sir Compton Domvile, William Watson and 1 unidentified.
Collins, James
5 boxes of slides, totalling around 400 slides, and an envelope "Botanic Garden Notes" (now in Box 1) of news clippings relating to the opening of the Glasshouses.
Corstorphine Trust
Mairi Planner's Downie, Laird and Laing Research
Collection consists of Mairi Planner's research into the Edinburgh nurserymen Downie, Laird and Laing, including material used in exhibiting the research. Mairi's great great grandfather Andrew Robertson Annan worked for the firm in the 1860s before moving to the Ravelston Estate in Edinburgh where he became Head Gardener - in researching him, Planner became interested in the nurserymen he worked for.
Planner, Mairi
Edinburgh Microscopical Society
1 ledger, 1 boxfile and 1 lever arch ring binder of material relating to the running of the Edinburgh Microscopical Society
Edinburgh Microscopical Society
Adam Forman Sphagnum Moss papers and photographs
The collection comprises photographs and reports related to the gathering and preparation of Sphagnum moss, in and around the Moffat/Beattock area, S.W. Scotland, which was used as a medical dressing for wounds during the First World War.
Forman, Adam
Catherine F. Glen's pressed wildflowers collection
1 Jenner's shoe box containing:
Glen, Catherine F.
2 items:
Grahame, G.