Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Glass Plate Negative Collection
- GB235 GPN
- Collectie
- 1890s to 1950s
Adam, Robert Moyes
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Glass Plate Negative Collection
Adam, Robert Moyes
A collection of 5 letters dating between August 1966 and June 1968 from Dr Botjah Prijanto to Mark Coode.
Prijanto, Botjah (1942-1969)
'Short Account of the Fossil Tree at Kinneil' by William Badger
• ‘Short Account of the Fossil Tree at Kinneil’, (July 1875)
Badger, William
Glasgow University Herbarium Card Index
2 card index boxes (possibly incomplete) listing monocots from Glasgow University's Herbarium that came to RBGE on permanent loan in 1942.
Glasgow University
one sketchbook of 18 flower paintings with inscription "Edith H. Nobbs, from her mother, St Petersburg, January 1st 1902"
Nobbs, Mrs?
Charles Cardale Babington Ephemera
• A catalogue of the plants gathered on the islands of North Uist, Harris and Lewis during a botanical excursion, (August, 1841).
• Copy of Syllabus Botanical Lectures (1862)
• Two letters to Parnell dated 1847 and 1848
• Two letters to the Botanical Society dated 1841and 1843
Babington, Charles Cardale
8 medals:
1857 Royal Botanic Society of London for pansies
1868 Glasgow and west of Scotland Horticultural Society for 24 blooms – Dahlias
1878 Royal Horticultural Society Sir Joseph Banks medal for cut blooms – Pansies
1897 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Jubilee Prize medal for group of plants
1901 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for flowering and foliage plants
1905 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society for group of plants – internal exhib
1908? Leith Horticultural Industrial Sports Society for violas and pansies
1925 Royal Horticultural Society for hardy flowers
16 seed catalogues:
1x Undated but likely Victorian
the rest dated 1907; 1922; 1927; 1930; 1931; 1942; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1949; 1950; 1952; 1953; 1955; 1961
1 poem regarding the cessation of the Scottish Horticultural Association in 1921, "The Passing of the Scottish Horticultural Association" by Charles Comfort.
Downie family
Dickson Nurserymen family; article by Hamish Johnston
•22 page, bound article written by Hamish Johnston adding new information about the Dickson nurserymen families to an article written by Priscilla Minay for the Old Edinburgh Club Vol. 1 1991. Accompanied by 2 pages of corrections to the Dickson entries in Ray Desmond’s Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists. 6 pages of email correspondence with Archive Librarian at RBGE (Feb.2011)
Johnston, Hamish
•Typed note of information about his life given by Miss Maughan, 4th March 1908.
Maughan, Miss
•1 Letter, dated 24th December 1917, from Lushington to James Sykes Gamble from Madras
Lushington, Alfred Wyndham