RBGE Archive

typed transcription – letter from George A. Don, Bedgebury, Kent, to Mr. Lowson, Forfar, author of Portrait Gallery of Forfar Notables, offering information on his grandfather, 11.02.1892

GB 235 RBG/2/GDS/7/3
File
1892 - 1910

Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

Thomas Blaikie accounts book 'Comptes Particulier de B'

GB 235 BLT/1/3
Item
1789 - 1822

Part of Thomas Blaikie collection

One green vellum bound notebook containing accounts for customers arranged by surname. A number of pages have been removed. The earliest entry is January 1789 and latest is June 1822.

Contains a loose handwritten note compiled in 2003 detailing the missing pages and method of their removal and noting that it was faxed to Pat Taylor. (Box 2)

Blaikie, Thomas, 1751-1838, gardener

Thomas Blaikie textbooks

GB 235 BLT/3
Series
1769 - 1775

Part of Thomas Blaikie collection

Two textbooks - Haller's 'History of the Plants of Switzerland' published in 1769 and Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' published in 1775. Both include some degree of annotation or inscription.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688, author

Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 3

GB 235 RJF/3/3
Series
1909-1915

Part of Reginald Farrer Collection

A compilation of photographs of Tibetan and Kansu people and scenery from both of Purdom's Chinese expeditions, 1909 - 1915. Many of these photographs appear in other albums.

Purdom, William

F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers, 1940

GB 235 FRS/2/3
Subseries
1940

Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection

FRS/2/3/01-09: correspondence relating to the cancelled 1939 Rhododendron Conference, dating to 1940

Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen

Correspondence pertaining to the transfer of Cave's sent material to Mr. Grierson

GB 235 CAV/1/1/7/3
Item
24/1/1957

Part of George H. Cave Collection

'Instructions for dusting herbarium speciemins'

GB 235 CAV/1/2/3
Item

Part of George H. Cave Collection

ledger, Lists of plant names, where collected in Sikkim, date of collection of specimen and seed

GB 235 CAV/1/3/3
Item
1905

Part of George H. Cave Collection

141 pages. Bound ledger with printed columns, labelled: 'Serial Number', 'Name of Plant', 'Divin. of Sikkim', 'Where collected', 'Date of Coll. of specimen', 'Serial No. in Herbm.', 'Serial No. in Ind. Gdn.'

Pages arranged by plant family.

Some notes on the “History of the Auricula”