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The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives, and articles relating to Sykes’ 1952 and 1954 expeditions to Nepal, organised by the British Museum and the Royal Horticultural Society. Also includes slides, correspondence, articles, maps, and other material from the 1980s to 2018.

Note on slides and photographs: slides are labelled on the mount (except for metal mounts) with details of date, locale, a descriptive caption, and, sometimes, elevation. Sykes’s handwritten notes (in pocket preceding each group of slides) supply more details. Photographs are labelled on the verso with details of date, locale, a descriptive caption, and, sometimes, elevation.

Aside from the expected botanical images and mountain views and scenery, the subjects of Sykes’s slides and photographs are wide-ranging, including villages and villagers, village houses, street scenes, bazaars, markets, festivals, porters, camp sites, camp activities, nomadic people, Hindu and Buddhist temples, shrines, monks, nuns, and monasteries, Buddhist statues, plant processing, seed drying, animals, cultivation and crops, activities such as wool processing, making ropes and mats, spinning and weaving, and brick making.

11 binders of Mike Richardson's coprolitic fungi collection notes, taken from samples of animal dung between c. 1996-2020, from locations around the U.K., Iceland and the Falkland Islands.

2 volumes of unpublished manuscript produced by Janet Rae in the early 1980s. George MacDougall may have typed the manuscripts. The idea was to produce something similar to a book already published, but it was considered too expensive and that there was not enough demand to publish this one. The manuscript does include illustrations, including at least one original pen and ink sketch by Alan McGillveray, and constitutes a description of Edinburgh's changing landscapes in c.1983.
The accession also includes 2x 2020 calendars marking the Society's 150th anniversary in 2019.

Notes written after Yu's time at RBGE ; Chinese botanist Te-Tsun Yu's [T.T. Yu's] career was significant and in recognition that our records of his time at RBGE are limited, RBGE horticulturist Edward Kemp contributed to our records by producing an account of his time spent with Yu alongside a summary of his career. To this is added an assessment of the Yu herbarium written by Jimmy Keenan in the 1960s(?)

•1 file of miscellaneous correspondence
•Box containing images of Kemp for the RBGE Archive
•Newspaper cuttings, a letter from Donald Roger, Branch Secretary of the Scottish Branch of the Arboricultural Association, and a letter from J. Kenneth Hume, Librarian and the RBGE (1999) all regarding the Ken Martin Memorial Award. (Filed in the miscellaneous I-K box

• WEH/1: Bound manuscript titled 'China: Wilson's journeys for Arnold Arboretum, 1907, 1908, 1910' containing numbered list of plants with descriptions and names (but no locations). Case binding with marbled end-papers. Printed label on front end-paper: Knapp, Drewett & Sons Ltd., Account book manufacturers, printers, lithographers & stationers, Kingston-Upon-Thames and branches. Book looks to have been obtained by RBGE in 1942.
(right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78783&query_desc=an%3A11168 (library acc: ECDO1)
• WEH/2: Folder containing a list of E.H.Wilson's Seeds from China - list compiled at RBGE from information found in the Plant Incoming Register: "Outdoor Department 1-02 to 10-12", seed sent to Edinburgh by John Stirling Maxwell in 1907
•Three folders containing three prints of Flora of Western China Kew herbarium specimens collected by E.H. Wilson (specimens on loan from Kew, photographed at RBGE) - these to be added to RBGE Archive's 'Plant Portrait Prints' collection.

The list is titled 'Lindberg Itinerary' and is essentially a list of field numbers alongside a location and date.
The locations all appear to be in and around Afghanistan.
There is a note attached to the list in Ian Hedge's handwriting that states: 'These lists of Lindberg collections refer to his zoological and not botanical gatherings. They are therefore only useful in knowing where he collected on particular days. No comprehensive lists of his botanical collections exist, but a paper by Rechinger and Riedl (Ann. Nat. Mus. Wien 65:29-37 (1962) deals with the plants he collected in the Wakhan area.'
Library acc no. ECEU1: (right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=78813&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20lindberg

Items that accompanied a donation to the RBGE Herbarium (01700); includes Ogilvie's passport, 1968-1978; 2 copies of Diseases of Vegetables, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Bulletin No. 123 - one of which (2nd ed. 1944) is annotated and to be housed in the Archives, the second (6th ed. 1969) is to go to the RBGE Library Periodicals section. The latter pamphlet contained a letter, John G.S. Marshall to L. Ogilvie, 31/12/1971 discussing the popularity of the Bulletin, plans for a Spanish version and a revision.
The accession also includes a print out of Ogilvie's wikipedia page, and a cover note from his son, W. Duncan Ogilvie, who donated the collection in April 2024.

Sanderson's Prize essay manuscript, ‘The Origin and Development of the Embryo in Phanerogamous Plants’, submitted in July 1849 as part of his Botany course for his Medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. Sanderson has illustrated the manuscript with pencil illustrations drawn from the microscope.
Impressed by the content, Hutton Balfour deemed it worthy of a prize, with part of the content read at a meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in February 1850.