4 folders containing Donald Pigott's notes and photos relating to his research on Tilia:
1: Photographs of living Tilia; folder of labelled photographs of living trees taken by Donald Pigott
2: China 1993, 1995; folder of notes on Donald Pigott's China trips in 1993 and 1995
3: Chinese Visit; folder detailing further Chinese trips taken by Pigott, includes 1993 and 1995.
4: Tilia Types, China; a folder containing good images / copies of Tilia type herbarium specimens from China.
47 photographs / studies of members of RBGE staff, mainly gardeners / probationer gardeners, some named, but many not.
Names include David Sydney Fish (x2), W. Douglas, Murray, David Wilkie, James D. McKenzie, James Esplin, D.M. Ross, William Ritchie, H.B. Anderson, Andrew R. Cosh, Thomas Sherlock, Douglas Law, William Fernie and Alexander Reid.
3 photographs taken at RBGE by George T. Malthouse in the 1890s, all showing the transportation of trees around RBGE: Araucaria imbricata, Quercus cerris and Crataegus oxyacantha, all with gardeners around the transporter.
Malthouse, George T.The 28 photographs in this series, taken by Pietro Guidi in San Remo, Italy, in the 1870s formed part of the Photographic Flora of San Remo, supervised by local pharmacist Francesco Panizzi. Each photograph has a Latin name, locality and a flowering time and som are hand coloured.
Panizzi, Francesco•Folder containing photographs of trees, (1901), used in Percy [Groom’s] ‘Trees and their Life Histories’ (1907), found in the National Museum of Scotland. [accession 2005/08]
•Four small folders containing photos of plants and flowers, dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
•Four large folders containing photos of plants and flowers dated 1901 on the front but all dated on the back 24/11/1923 and stamped ‘The Royal Scottish Museum’ [already at RBGE by 2005]
The photographs cover a wide variety of activity at RBGE and many were used in the book 'How the Garden Grew' by L. Paterson. There are student groups, work in the Rock Garden c.1938-39, the Palm House, shots around the garden including snow clearing, staff/students prior to the Second World War including Henry W. Moseley, William G. Webster, James G. Crabbe, W.S. Neil, John E.G. Beach, Ronald J. Smith and also Jack Roberts. Trip to Loch Lomond (Guild?), Laboratory Shots and Jack Roberts dressed up as the Rag Queen on May Day 1948.
Hayes, Stuart F.20 photographs showing the development of the Rock Garden in around 1938-39 (x17) the arrival of the large stone trough from House o'Hill for the alpine yard c.1936? (x2) and Primula reidii taken by David Wilkie
MacKenzie, William Gregor•Box containing photographs of an expedition to China, and George Forrest related photographs, 2003
Paterson, Leonie•Folder of slide collection of Icelandic Plants
•Box of slide collection of Arctic Plants
•Book containing photographs of personalities, plants and landscapes, China
Pratt, Antwerp E.