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Reports of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association

  • GB 235 SSR
  • Fonds
  • 1947 - 1952

box containing progress reports of the Scottish Seaweed Research Association based at the Institute of Seaweed Research in Musselburgh. There are also Newsletters, and correspondence with William Wright Smith, all arranged chronologically.

Scottish Seaweed Research Association

Hand coloured multi block wood engravings featuring Reginald Farrer

  • GB 235 ROR
  • Fonds
  • 2015

2 limited edition hand coloured multi block wood engravings showing the plantsman Reginald Farrer created in 2015 by artist Abigail Rorer of the Lone Oak Press. There is also accompanying correspondence detailing the donation.

Rorer, Abigail

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives

  • GB 235 RBG
  • Fonds
  • 1670 - 2023

• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)

Dr Mark Newman - Ginger correspondence

  • GB 235 NEW
  • Fonds
  • 1991 - 2003

The gingers correspondence folders are arranged alphabetically by name; the dates are approximate:
Marlina Ardiyani - 1996-2003
Khaw Siok Hooi - 2001
John Kress - 1998-2001
Yulita Kusumadewi - 1998-2001
Tony Lamb - 1998-1999
Kai Larsen - 1994-2000
Amelie Lhuillier - 2002
John Mood - 1993-2001
Chatchai Ngamriabsakul - 1997-2001
Rachun Pooma - 1999-2001
Atique Rahman - 1999
Achariya Rangsiriyi - 1996-2002
Shoko Sakai - 1996-1999
Atsuko Takano - 1998-2006
Ida Theilade - 1994-2000
Tru'o'ng Quang Tam - 1994
Tom Wood - 1998-2001

Newman, Mark

Larachmhor Garden Papers

  • GB 235 LAR
  • Fonds
  • 2011

At present, 1 folder containing newsletter, funding appeal and letterheads dating to 2011

Bennell, Alan P.

Mrs Knox-Finlay Meconopsis Lantern Slides

  • GB 235 KNX
  • Fonds
  • 1938 - 1987

8 glass lantern slides showing images of Meconopsis taken by Mrs Knox-Finlay at Keillour Lake, Keillour Castle:
Meconopsis
Meconopsis x musgravei
Meconopsis sherriff 600
Meconopsis grandis 600
Meconopsis grandis (true)
Meconopsis coxiana
Meconopsis betonicifolia praetensis
Meconopsis beamishii

Knox Finlay Family

Ida M. Hayward Collection

  • GB 235 IMH
  • Fonds
  • 1908 - 1950

Box contains scrapbook and folder containing correspondence and obituary.

Hayward, Ida Margaret

Wood samples from the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884

  • GB 235 IFE
  • Fonds
  • 1865 - 1884

Seven samples of wood displayed at the International Forestry Exhibition held in Edinburgh in 1884 - all are labelled with "Sierra Leone, Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition, 1884" - additional markings are as follows:

  • No 5, Gree-Gree, Greegree, 1884.83.31
  • Beck, 1884.83.32
  • Koronko, Coronko, Kronko, 1884.83.39
  • Oak, [Teak scored out], 1884.83.41
  • Conta-Cobang, Contabang, Cotan Cobang, 1884.83.43
  • Koondee, Cundee, 1884.83.46
  • White Brimstone, 1884.83.47
    The Exhibition Catalogue indicates that the Government of Sierra Leone had a stand at the exhibition where they displayed "Specimens of the Woods of the Colony, native, polished 1865, redone 1884" - it is assumed that these may have been part of this display.

Government of Sierra Leone

William Alfred Hughes's Silver RHS Medal 1929

  • GB 235 HUG
  • Fonds
  • 1929 - 1987

The medal is a silver Royal Horticultural Societ Joseph Banks medal and is inscribed 1929 Junior Section General Examination in Horticulture William A Hughes First. In 1987 Hughes made contact with Roy Watling at RBGE and donated his medal - both men had been office bearers for the Botanical Society of Scotland. The medal, and eventually the certificate and all associated correspondence came to the care of M.V. Mathew in the library who placed them in the Archives.

Hughes, William Alfred

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